Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking Radio immediately began transmitting the news in all major languages, including English, Quechua and Swahili, that it had become the world's fifth atomic "power," demanded an immediate worldwide summit conference to "discuss the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons." Added Peking smugly: "The mastering of the nuclear weapon by China is a great encouragement to the revolutionary peoples of the world." Years & Efforts. The U.S. did not quite enter into that spirit. Said President Johnson: "This explosion has been fully taken into account in planning our own defense program and nuclear capability. Its military significance...
...scientists from such atomic centers as Caltech and France's Curie Institute, the Chinese have the scientific know-how to continue. Because of Russian aid from 1950 to 1959 (when the Moscow-Peking split first fissured), they also have a network of operating uranium mines, at least four nuclear reactors, a raft of Soviet-trained technicians, and a rudimentary basic industrial plant that can furnish most of the products needed to maintain a small atomic-bomb program...
According to top China experts, Peking can afford to spend a maximum of $500 million a year on all phases of its nuclear program - unless drought or floods force it to spend hard currency to buy food. At this rate, it might take China between five and ten years to produce 30 bombs small enough to be lifted by an airplane or missile. But China has no long-range bombers or missiles, and to create the air fleet that would deliver the bombs would take $10 billion to $20 billion and between 15 and 20 years-unless outside help comes...
...refreshing for once to see Communist students demonstrate not in front of the U.S. but the Red Chinese headquarters. At the United Nations, the Indian ambassador said China's explosion of "this golf ball" was "in defiance of world opinion," dismissed its demand for a nuclear summit meeting as "a propaganda gesture...
Died. Harry Hart ("Pat") Frank, 57, first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors, whose 1946 Mr. Adam, describing the plight of the only male on earth to survive sterilization after an accidental nuclear blast (the army has to shield him from hordes of would-be mothers), sold 2,000,000 copies, was soon followed by other atomic potboilers (Alas, Babylon, How to Survive the H-Bomb and Why); of acute inflammation of the pancreas; in Jacksonville...