Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time it was widely believed that the President would give the go-ahead for resuming work on the AMB, which would place nuclear tipped weapons around major cities. As opposition to the project mounted, however, it began to seem more likely that he might call for the system's deployment only in areas removed from population centers...
...must be kept in mind that the real concern of the Air Force is with the possibility of nuclear confrontation, not student confrontation. As Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., the newly appointed Secretary of the Air Force recently stated, "The primary objective in he Air Force is to develop equipment necessary for national security...
Many experts remain convinced that, in nuclear war, the offense would always have the advantage-that any new defensive device could easily be neutralized by improvements in attack missiles. Contending that the Pentagon's review was inadequate, Kennedy announced that he was organizing an independent study by outside experts. This week the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee will begin hearings on ABM. Both inquiries can be counted on to generate still more controversy in what has already become one of the most heated-and most crucial-defense disputes in many years...
Unfortunately, the notion of legitimacy in world affairs has begun to fade. Primitive diplomacy-or undiplomacy-is increasingly back in style, partly because the world's two great powers are locked in a nuclear stalemate. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union is free to simply send in a gunboat to sort out an awkwardness. Modern communications link the world so closely together that a raw display of power in Pyongyang, for example, may produce severe reverberations in Moscow almost instantly. In addition, even small nations today have enough firepower of their own to blow an unfriendly gunboat...
...professors and dozens of graduate students backing the March 4 movement at M.I.T. are most incensed about plans for an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, which they call "illadvised and hazardous." They are also opposed to the development of chemical and biological weapons and the enlargement of the nuclear stockpile. Instead, they suggest that scientific research should be turned increasingly toward solving the nation's environmental and social problems. As the first step toward bringing about such a change in U.S. scientific policy, they call upon scientists "to unite for concerted action...