Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist China yesterday became the fifth nation to explode a nuclear bomb...
...that it will take from four to ten years before the Chinese can develop an operational nuclear delivery system...
China's first operational nuclear force will probably have a limited range. Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, estimated that within three or four years the Chinese "will probably develop bombs compact enough to put in the few bombers they have...
...prestige has been suffering abroad. The revolutionaries are turning to the Chinese, the mixed-economy nations are on the whole sticking with the West, and the neutralists spurn the Russians as well as the Americans. Caught between the advances of a more revolutionary Communism and the responsibilities of nuclear power leadership, Premier Khrushchev was almost inevitably damned for what he did do, and damned for what he didn...
...healed. Yet this brings up an obvious point--the new Soviet rulers face precisely the same problems that Khrushchev faced. Making up with Communist China while continuing a policy of detente with the West will not get any easier. But the alternative they face remains the same: that of nuclear disaster...