Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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20th anniversary of the first nuclear raid...
...answers came, the President sat with his chin cupped in hand, giving his undivided attention. The discussions ranged over five major U.S. policy possibilities. An all-out war, including the use of nuclear weapons, was discarded immediately, as was a U.S. withdrawal. To the President, the first was too dangerous, the second unthinkable. Letting things go on pretty much as they are, in the vague hope of achieving a stalemate, without substantially increasing the U.S. commitment was offered as a third possibility. But General William Westmoreland, the U.S. field commander, had urgently requested more men, and to turn him down...
...streets, President Sukarno. Pro-Peking Communists also work hand in hand with Singapore's Barisan Socialist Party, have long since captured Japan's 10 million-member Gensuikyo, its Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (which nonetheless lost considerable support with the advent of Red China as a nuclear power). Though India's 160,000-member Communist Party is split down the middle, the pro-Chinese wing holds the psychological whip hand, having won 40 seats in this year's Kerala state election to only three for the Muscovite wing. The victory was doubly impressive, since there...
...annually. Though the 35? price for the desalted water will be above the 30? that Riverhead now pays for regular water, it will be lower than the price paid by most surrounding communities. Says A.M.F. Chairman Carter Burgess, 48: "We have confidence in the economic viability of small nuclear plants capable of many applications...
...potential in a rural community, the Riverhead plant and other small ones offer just a drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...