Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army. Impressed by the swiftness of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, many West Germans fear that Russian tanks might punch across the border so fast and at so many points that dozens of cities would be overrun before NATO got around to repelling the invasion with its tactical nuclear missiles. In that case, much of West Germany would become a nuclear battlefield-or fall to the conquerors without a riposte...
...Soviet navy's activity may be no more than "a determination to mark the ships of other navies in much the same way that players mark their opposite numbers in a soccer game." Jane's assesses a formidable number of Soviet players, among them: 55 nuclear-powered submarines, most of them of the hunter-killer type; 325 conventionally powered subs; 25 cruisers; 100 destroyers; two new helicopter carriers...
Jane's was more perceptibly disturbed over the decline of the Royal Navy. Its major force is now down to four aircraft carriers, 21 postwar-built conventional submarines, three nuclear-powered hunter-killer subs, and four nuclear-powered missile submarines. "The Royal Navy," says Jane's, "has taken a cruel knock. It is hardly adequate for peacetime defense, and insufficient for war." Perhaps the cruelest knock of all was Jane's judgment that by the 1970s, if present plans are carried through, the French navy will be stronger than Britain's by a margin...
...into the realization that they are public figures-and fair game for biographers, critics and even gossip columnists. Last week the point was driven home again by the publication of another gossipy book, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, in which Author Nuel Pharr Davis calls the roll of America's nuclear greats. He judges them not only as scientists, but also as human beings. Some do not fare too well...
...great embarrassment. But the postwar years brought another. Putting his prestige and influence in Washington to work, Lawrence overcame the objections of other scientists and won approval for the construction of a monstrous proton accelerator for converting nonfissionable uranium 238 into fission able plutonium, which could be used in nuclear weapons. This time, after three years and huge expenditures, Lawrence completed the accelerator. But to his chagrin, it produced an effective beam of protons for only two hours, then burned out and never could be used again...