Word: nuclear
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...that the Soviets would risk the start of World War III by attacking a NATO member, the West Germans nonetheless worry that the Soviet leaders might try to intimidate them with a further show of force that could, perhaps by accident, turn into an invasion. Reports of Soviet tactical nuclear missiles in Czechoslovakia could only increase West German anxiety. Says Helmut Schmidt, the Socialists' parliamentary leader: "We cannot rule out the possibility that momentum of Soviet propaganda attacks might snowball into armed action...
...long term, however, any major beefing-up of NATO rests not with the U.S. but with the West Europeans themselves. One of the familiar ironies of the nuclear standoff between the superpowers is that it has restored the importance of conventional warfare. While the West Europeans rightfully look to the U.S. for protection from nuclear attack, they can and should look to their own resources for the new manpower necessary to bring NATO's conventional forces back in balance with its potential Communist antagonists...
...presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to lecture to a group of summer trainees at the Xerox Corp. Cleaver told his audience to "liberate" a Xerox machine or two for the Panthers. He looked forward, ultimately, he said to a "black finger on the nuclear trigger." Xerox executives endured the harangue in silence. Whispered a Negro trainee: "Nothing is too insulting for white liberals to take...
Strategy of Panic. Humphrey's speech was a grace note in a week that had few of them. The amphitheatre itself was heavily guarded and isolated, like a prison camp or a nuclear installation. If the 10,000 young protesters were bent on raising a ruckus outside the hall, McCarthy's forces were determined to raise one within. "There is no floor strategy," said McCarthy's aide, Jerry Eller, only half in jest, on the eve of the convention. "Just achieve panic, and then...
Perhaps the worst aspect of CBW is the easy availability of its weapons. While the nuclear club remains relatively exclusive, nuclear arms can continue to provide a built-in deterrent-a balance of terror that restrains nuclear powers from starting a war in which winner and loser alike will figuratively glow in the dark. Members of the CBW club may soon multiply. And their very number could vastly increase the possibility that one of them could be tempted to exercise CBW's awful power...