Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twenty years have changed both men, and last week Acheson turned up to help Nixon in the President's battle to win congressional approval of the Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system. Democrat Acheson, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze and Albert Wohlstetter, a nuclear-war strategist at the University of Chicago, announced that they were forming a bipartisan group of scientists, professors and former public officials called the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy...
...four undecided. Last week Dr. John Foster, the Defense Department's research and engineering director and a chief ABM evangelist, warned: "Intentions of a potential enemy are a secret he can easily keep. We do not have a crystal ball; yet in order to deter nuclear war in the future, we must decide on future weapons...
They are: 1. Nuclear incineration for all of us, 2. drowning in the population niagara, or 3. choking in the filth of our own ecxrements-gases, noises, DDT, fall-out and other pollutions...
Kaleidoscope Console. John Seery, 28, disdainfully tilted a 17-in. color set on its back and imprisoned it in a quartz-like block of plastic. "When the TV stops functioning," explains Seery, "the work is complete." Earl Reiback, 33, an M.I.T.-trained nuclear physicist, stripped the phosphor coating from the glass screens on three sets, allowing the viewer to see electrons gleaming eerily inside the colorfully painted picture tube...
Militant House. The tremendous disparity between the two groups of experts that published their findings last week, points up Congress's problem with the ABM controversy. There is no consensus among nuclear and strategic seers-and there probably will be none. In the Senate, where skepticism of most military undertakings is very much in vogue these days, the pre-vote count remains against Safeguard, 49 to 42, with nine Senators wobbling. The Administration therefore is in no rush for a Senate decision. Instead, it is hoping to win the undecideds over to its side. In the more militant House...