Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Convention in 1948, prompting a walkout by Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats. He showed foresight when he crusaded for Medicare 15 years before it became law and proposed a Peace Corps nine months before it was established. His peace credentials, validated in the struggle for enactment of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, were always gilt-edged?until Lyndon Johnson and Viet Nam happened along...
That is the assumption on which the U.S. has operated. Washington's reaction had about it an almost dreamlike unreality in its restraint. The U.S. knows, of course, that in a nuclear age it has no way whatsoever of aiding Czechoslovakia. But the relative lack of polemics was remarkable...
Embargo. Congress was out of session, but a meeting of legislative leaders supported the President. More varied reaction may come next month when the Senate considers ratification of the nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. Approval of the pact may well be delayed, but it is unlikely that the Senate will kill the agreement. One clue to Congress' attitude came from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who had been pressing for additional reductions in the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe. Further cutbacks "at this time" are not feasible, he said last week. His Republican counterpart, Everett Dirksen, suggested an embargo on trade with...
...proved once again was one hard fact: the U.S. and Russia still live, as they have with some modifications since World War II, at the center of their own spheres of influence. There are certain lines beyond which neither side dares to go without the serious risk of nuclear...
...become the fifth member of the hydrogen club, France is at least four years away from having a missile system capable of giving its big new bang the proper ride. Still, despite his recent troubles at home, Charles de Gaulle is determined to press ahead with his nuclear-weapon development program as the premier proof of his restoration of la gloire to France...