Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIOLENT PEACE, by Carl and Shelley Mydans. Two veteran combat correspondents combine memorable war pictures and eyewitness accounts of 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents to examine the changing face of war in the nuclear age. 1897 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE, introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. A dazzling trove for both serious and lighthearted students of Americana, this hardcover facsimile of a popular mailorder catalogue mirrors the manners, morals and appetites of the Gay Nineties...
...near-flawless display of precision rocketry, the U.S. last week added two formidable new weapons systems to its nuclear arsenal. The Navy's fleet ballistic missile Poseidon and the Air Force's powerful Minuteman III ICBM, both on their maiden tests, winged like homing pigeons to their targets from two launching areas at Cape Kennedy. Their dual success was remarkable, but what distinguished the solid-fuel missiles even more was their potential. Each is designed to carry Multiple Individually-Targetable Re-entry Vehicles (MIRV), comprising as many as ten separate nuclear warheads ticketed for preselected targets...
...hardened silos. Poseidon may carry as many as ten separately targetable warheads, and Minuteman perhaps three, along with decoy chaff and penetration devices to fool enemy anti-ballistic mis sile systems. Together, they could raise the U.S. single-strike capability to a formidable maximum of 7,500 nuclear warheads...
Last week President Johnson decreed an end to the exile of the Bikinians, now a scattered community of 500. After 23 atomic and hydrogen bomb tests, the last in 1958, the poisons of nuclear radiation have dissipated from the sand and sea around their native atoll, and the Bikinians can at last return to their home...
Proxy Wars. Since the major nuclear powers are deathly afraid of a head-on clash, the Mydanses believe that only total derangement on one or both sides will bring back all-out war. Instead, wars of the future will follow the pattern established since World War II-a conflict fought with limited means and often ending indecisively...