Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neddermeyer sat quietly, visualizing uranium spheres squeezed like oranges. Finally, he spoke up haltingly for the principle of implosion, understanding it instinctively but expressing it so clumsily that he made little impression on anyone-except Oppenheimer, who encouraged him to devise what finally became an efficient triggering mechanism for nuclear weapons...
...businesslike assembly of "policy statements," a kind of memo to the American people, culled from recent reports and speeches. McNamara is regrettably reticent on Viet Nam. But the book reveals not only a highly humane character behind the supposedly cold surface but a deep and liberal concern about excessive nuclear armaments and a too militaristic di rection of U.S. policy...
...build only the "thin" anti-Chinese defense ABM screen that McNamara proposed (TIME, July 5). He adds: "The blunt fact remains that if we had had more accurate in formation [in 1961] about planned Soviet strategic forces, we simply would not have needed to build as large a nuclear arsenal as we have today...
...inhumanity to man was once so limited by primitive technology that horror-story writers had to resort to ghosts, devils and other creaky props. Today's shapers of fictional barbarity have merely to invoke, with suitable exaggeration, the modern world. Computers, spaceships, nuclear weapons-these are the devices summoned in this fine first collection of 15 stories...
...Pentagon had always found it very hard to get first-rate scientists," Hersh said, "but with Kennedy's glamor and the new policy of seeking alternative military responses to nuclear weapons, the government found it easier to get first-rate scientists like Watson...He could take a particular problem, suggest lines for more fruitful investigation, and save the military researchers months of work as well as a great deal of money...