Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race to build anti-ballistic-missile systems that will siphon off tens of billions of dollars from urgently needed domestic programs in both countries. Moreover, Nixon insisted during the campaign that the U.S. faces a "security gap" and must not permit the Soviets to achieve anything approaching nuclear parity. In the Brookings report, Carl Kaysen, director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, sharply challenges that view, underscoring "the futility of a quest for security" through increasing military strength. Kaysen argues that the theory of "deterrence-plus" -the maintenance of sufficient strength to absorb a Soviet first strike...
...sealed behind a monetary barrier, deprived of much of the economic freedom that De Gaulle has used in the past to act as arbiter of Europe and counterweight to West Germany. Nothing so underscored France's reduced position as the cancellation of next year's nuclear tests in the Pacific, in which France was expected to explode its first missile-sized H-bomb. Doubtless the general will continue to talk of grandeur and gloire with his familiar fervor, but until the soundness of the franc is restored, the old perorations must necessarily have a hollow ring...
Although Russia and the U.S. recognized the role that rockets could eventually play in space exploration, both nations were more immediately concerned about arming themselves with the most devastating military weapon: the nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Because U.S. scientists had already begun to master the art of packing enormous power into small nuclear warheads, the Redstone, Jupiter and Atlas missiles designed to carry them were only of modest size. The Russians, who were behind in nuclear technology, had only more primitive and massive warheads to use; they were forced to build enormous rockets to loft them. But the Soviet...
Anders is a service brat who was born in Hong Kong, while his father was there as a Navy commander. After graduating from Annapolis, he switched to the Air Force, won his master's degree in nuclear engineering and became a flying instructor. Until he was forced to abandon it because of his time-consuming space training, Anders owned a Cessna 172 and flew it every time he got a chance. Unusually conscientious, he once won a good-driver's award after an Albuquerque policeman saw him stop his car, remove a cinder block from a crowded highway...
Bishop says that during the Dallas confusion, the White House "bagman"-the officer who carries the codes for nuclear attack-was at one point nowhere to be found. "As the clock hung silent, the United States of America stood, for a little time, naked." This is nonsense. Kennedy's military aide, Ted Clifton, knew where the bagman was and where Johnson was. And Bishop's statement to the contrary, Johnson had certainly been briefed at least twice on the use of the nuclear emergency system. Clifton, who established communication with the White House, was also in continuous touch...