Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cold War changed: for both the U.S. and the USSR, international politics became gradually secularized. The metaphysical became negotiable, the abhorrent understandable, to the extent that we could tacitly accept the Cuban revolution while the Russians could look on without much fuss as we armed West Germany with nuclear weapons...
...signers included HIllary Putnam, Professor of Philosophy; Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics; George Wald, Professor of Biology; and H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History and national co-chairman of the committee for a sane nuclear policy...
Mostly, however, the presidents influence society and the Government by serving on powerful advisory groups. Within education, for example, 22 university consortiums now direct projects too big for any single school to handle, such as the operation of a nuclear reactor. Other key boards counsel the Government on foreign-aid, education abroad, relations with emerging nations, and poverty programs...
...adjustable-wing Air Force-Navy fighter. The company also garnered development awards to convert it into a spy plane and a bomber to replace the Strategic Air Command's B-52. Though its Convair division in San Diego still limps, G.D. has a near-record backlog of nuclear-submarine orders, is busy producing antiaircraft and ship-to-air missiles...
...will doubtless do it for us." The mission of the American intellectual, as Hughes saw it, was to do what the Asians and Africans had thus far failed to do and define neutralism "as a faith and a way of life." In the meantime, the United States should renounce nuclear weapons (by stages), close down most overseas military bases and rest national safety on "a territorial-militia or guerilla-resistance type of defense...