Word: nuclear
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...Nixon said he did not believe that it would. But, he added, "we must recognize that they might. My answer is that this is the time to take that risk. Time is not on our side, but on China's side. Every day that passes, China's nuclear capability increases. Five years, ten years-we might not be able to make a stand there, or any place else, without risking nuclear world...
...Joint Chiefs' staff, he was assigned in 1960 to brief Presidential Candidate John Kennedy on military developments; his performance led to his appointment by Kennedy as Army Chief of Staff in 1962. In that job, he won McNamara's favor by his outspoken advocacy of the nuclear test-ban treaty, trekking to Capitol Hill to rebut point by point the doubts expressed by the Air Force's LeMay. A longtime protege of General Maxwell Taylor's, Wheeler succeeded Taylor as J.C.S. Chairman...
Procurement of the controversial F-111 fighter-bomber (formerly the TFX) has been Pentagon-approved, and the prototype has taken to the air far ahead of schedule in highly successful tests. Money for developing a cargo plane (the C-5A) able to airlift 750 men has been approved. New nuclear surface ships may well be okayed by McNamara as part of his doctrine of flexibility...
Died. William Buckingham, 62, research engineer for Western Union Telegraph Co., who in 1961 developed the U.S. Nuclear Bomb Warning System, which is installed in 99 target areas and will, through supersensitive photoelectric devices, instantly pick up the first heat and light waves from a nuclear explosion, thus alerting military commanders moments before it and all other communication systems are knocked out; of cancer; in Southampton...
With lucidity and quiet understatement, the distinguished French pundit sifts the various theories of nuclear deterrence-U.S., Soviet, European-that have transformed the nature of war and diplomacy. In the past, Aron points out, war was simply the last stage of strategy, Clausewitz' "extension of politics." Now, as in the 1962 Cuban confrontation, the great powers are committed to a war of bluff in which strategists insist that the bluff must never be called or war declared. "For the first time in history," writes Aron, "entire weapons systems, developed at the cost of billions of dollars, are retired...