Word: nuclear
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...first strategic decisions facing the next President will be whether or not to construct a "thick" defensive network of anti-ballistic missiles that might cost $40 billion. Humphrey doubts the wisdom of doing that; Nixon has expressed no firm position. Another national concern is the nuclear nonproliferation treaty-an attempt to stop other countries, including some erratic new ones in Asia and Africa, from building and brandishing atomic bombs. To prevent such possible nuclear blackmail, Humphrey urges quick U.S. ratification of the treaty. Nixon has called for a delay because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His critics point...
...send home all non-Soviet divisions in Czechoslovakia and reduce the number of their own divisions within the next months. According to speculation in Prague, seven divisions, armored and motorized, will remain behind. They are equipped with Scud and Frog tactical missiles that can fire either conventional or nuclear warheads. The Soviet command is setting up headquarters at Milovice, 25 miles northeast of Prague, where Russian technicians have already installed a troposcatter communications system that gives Soviet Commander Ivan Pavlovsky instant and unjammable contact with other Warsaw Pact headquarters...
...Emphasized Role. The U.S. moved last week to re-emphasize its role as the ultimate guarantor of peace and security in Europe. Whatever NATO's condition, the Soviets must also reckon that any invasion of Western Europe might bring down the full force of the U.S. nuclear deterrent on the Russian homeland-and World War III. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford visited West Germany and West Berlin to convey firm assurance of U.S. protection. A few days later, Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach flew to Belgrade for talks with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who is feeling...
...China Cloud, two Associated Press editors have put together an impressive research project dealing with the origins of China's nuclear know-how. It was the U.S. that gave China its start. Since the 1930s, a number of young Chinese science students had been arriving on U.S.-sponsored scholarships; many contributed to America's nuclear and missile technology. During the feverish Red hunts of the early 1950s, many of the scientists fled the U.S., while others were deported. Eighty returned to China-taking with them vast amounts of information-and were pressed into Mao Tse-tung...
Militant Rectitude. In Revolutionary Immortality, China's bomb is viewed as a deterrent to be employed against any foreign power that tries to snuff out the revolution. Robert Jay Lifton, an Asian specialist and psychiatry research professor at Yale, believes that the death of the revolution-whether by nuclear means or otherwise-is Chairman Mao's greatest fear...