Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confessing that "I am scared to death we're running into nuclear World War III," Pennsylvania's Clark asked if a resumption of bombing would really reduce infiltration. Rusk replied that the raids had in the past "undoubtedly made infiltration more difficult and more costly." Clark persisted, and Rusk, on the edge of annoyance, finally snapped: "Look, when a truck goes 45 miles in five days because of air attacks, that is some advantage over its covering the same ground in five hours...
Despite the explosion of two atomic devices in Red China, McNamara told a House Armed Services Subcommittee, Peking will not pose a nuclear threat to the U.S. until some time after 1975. Even then, he said, its small but "highly visible" force of ballistic missiles will be chiefly a political weapon, "designed to undermine our military prestige and the credibility of any guarantee which we might offer to friendly countries." To counter even this limited threat, McNamara said that the U.S. could set up a "light" anti-missile missile system-as opposed to the "heavy" system that would be necessary...
...Spanish soil and were readily recovered. The fourth fell into the sea just short of Almeria. Fishermen quickly rescued the bomber's four survivors but not the bomb. Some 2,000 American servicemen from Spanish bases undertook the search. To be sure, none of the deadly, multimegaton nuclear-bomb cases was armed, and all were packaged in radiation-proof shells. But, just the same, everyone wanted all of them found...
...American continent and its distant approaches; they can track on the screens before them the flight of missiles or planes, friendly or hostile. They can, in COC jargon, "build up" a picture that includes patterns of probable radioactive fallout and areas that have been destroyed or made uninhabitable by nuclear, chemical or even biological weapons. On their console television screens, they can flash up-to-the-minute weather reports from any area of North America, the status of defensive fighters and missiles, the positions of orbiting satellites and space debris (so that they will not be mistaken for missiles), even...
...Direct Nuclear Hit. Little is left to human error. Should no one notice a major development, or should a number of seemingly unrelated minor developments signify trouble, electronic brains set off flashing lights, ring bells, and sound other assorted alarms. On one switch box where alarms are manually triggered, a NORAD operator has already taped a crude sign: "Don't push buttons. It makes a real offensive noise...