Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Early Bird satellite relays a transatlantic discussion about nuclear controls between Senator Robert Kennedy in the U.S., French General Pierre Gallois in Paris, German Politician Franz Josef Strauss in Munich, and British Diplomat Lord Chalfont in Geneva...
...with China becomes almost inevitable." Taylor considered that a remote possibility. When the Chinese poured over the Yalu into Korea in 1950, "we had a very aggressive Soviet Union quite capable of militarily exploiting any commitment we made in the Far East," he explained. "We had no nuclear-weapon stockpile of any great significance. We were utterly unprepared for the land war in Korea...
...pointed out, these conditions have been reversed, and the prospects are uniformly unfavorable for China. "We are," he said, "a far better, greater military power. We have been preparing for this kind of guerrilla-war challenge ever since 1961. We have a vast stock pile of nuclear weapons, the ultimate deterrent of any great expansion." In similar vein, when Fulbright expressed apprehension that "the Chinese may feel very nervous about a war," Taylor retorted: "They should. If they ever got in a war with us, it would be disastrous for them...
...more dramatic changes will be climate control. Tempo scientists estimate that the entire electrical energy needs of the U.S. could be supplied by a dozen nuclear generating stations spotted around the country, each with a capacity on the order of 60,000 megawatts (v. 1,974 megawatts for Grand Coulee). If one such station were built on Mount Wilson above Los Angeles, the heat produced as a byproduct could be guided into the atmosphere, raising the inversion layer that hangs over Los Angeles to 19,000 feet, thus ridding the city of smog. A sea breeze could be drawn into...
...budget reaches into every national nook and cranny. It concerns itself with appropriations for a nuclear aircraft carrier, for cancer research and free school milk, for the cost of shoveling snow in Washington. It takes up the building of hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen's rounds. It sets out the figures for developing a vaccine against syphilis and paying the pensions of 10,500 surviving veterans of the Spanish-American War. From the smallest single project ($5,000 for the Potomac River Basin Commission) to the largest ($3.6 billion...