Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistics that Nixon used, matched against figures marshaled by the Administration to rebut him, added to the mystification of the layman. But close examination suggests that Nixon was being less than responsible in playing a nuclear numbers game...
...Eight years ago, our numerical advantage over the Soviets in bombers was 30%. Now it's more than the other way around. Today the Soviets are 50% ahead of us." At the end of 1960, when both superpowers still relied principally upon bombers as a means of delivering nuclear warheads, the U.S. had 1,930 big intercontinental bombers, the Russians only 1,200. Today, with bombers serving primarily as a back-up force to the missiles, the American bomber force has been reduced to 646 planes...
...exuded cheerless defeat. The candidate and his running mate General LeMay sat behind bare, petty-bureaucrat desks, the General seated not really next to Wallace but off well to the left, not so near as to be frightening but available just in case we need a little of that nuclear hardware...
...CANDIDATES' position on the bombing halt conforms to the different tones which characterize their entire foreign policies. Nixon has argued for the delay of ratification of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty as a result of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. He has promised an extensive anti-ballistic missle (ABM) system regardless of cost, and he has declared that the United States must "re-establish" clear nuclear superiority over the Soviets before engaging in discussions with them...
Humphrey has called for immediate approval of the non-proliferation treaty; he has opposed the costly ABM's system's expansion, and he asserts that the current American nuclear superiority need not be increased to enter meaningful discussions on detente with the Soviets. The Vice-President has abandoned the cold war rhetoric of the fifties...