Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarked on a program of nuclear sharing which may forestall agreement with the Soviet Union on arms control and nuclear proliferation. In the last six years, nuclear warheads have been mounted secretly on West German planes and missles, despite frequent warnings from Soviet officials -- repeated last week by Andrei Gromyko -- that "West German access to decisions" on nuclear weapons will freeze any further talks...
...military Communist threat to Europe has so markedly declined in recent years that NATO's importance is increasingly a matter of politics and status. De Gaulle is correct enough when he asserts that NATO is essentially an American command. The NATO "sword" remains the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The NATO shield is the 27 divisions, six of them American, twelve West German, that are assigned for integrated use in the event of a Soviet land attack on Western Europe. Many of NATO's divisions, including German ones, are equipped with tactical nuclear weapons-but in all cases the warheads...
...NATO is the problem of West Germany, which far from wanting out, wants farther in. Though forbidden by treaty to manufacture its own atomic arms, West Germany, as the most powerful industrial and conventional military power in Europe, has of late come to feel keenly its second-class nuclear status in the Alliance-particularly beside Britain and France. Later this month Erhard will visit President Johnson, and a preview of what is on Erhard's mind came not long ago when he told the Bundestag that the U.S. allies "must be given a share in nuclear defense according...
Other West Germans are even more outspoken. The clear long-range danger is that if Germans are to be cast permanently in the role of serfs to the Alliance's nuclear knights, the resulting bitterness will lead to a new outburst of German nationalism. The West Germans know that for the foreseeable future they cannot have nuclear weapons of their own. Germany with the Bomb is a prospect that alarms Western Europe nearly as much as it does Russia and the satellites. What Erhard does want is a greater share in both nuclear planning and in the control over...
...North Vietnamese president sent a telegram several days before the march to Hughes and Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted pediatrician, who are co-chairmen of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear policy. The telegram was in reply to a message which SANE, had sent to lio regarding the march...