Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nuclear Rumble The controversy over Viet Nam was raised several megadecibels by widespread speculation that the Johnson Administration was considering use of tactical nuclear weapons in the war. Though high Administration officials repeatedly and categorically denied in private that the U.S. has either stored nukes in Viet Nam or even considered using them there, their public statements have been less than convincing. The series of dusty answers given by the President and his top aides set off alarums and warnings from London to Peking...
...experience into practice, he acted like a different leader during the Cuban missile crisis. He made it bluntly clear to Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. was prepared to invade and overrun Cuba if the Russians did not remove their missiles. The result was a textbook settlement for a nuclear confrontation: both sides could claim a victory of a sort. The U.S. had erased a Communist threat, and Khrushchev could tell his people that he had prevented a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
Physicist Ralph Lapp was part of the Manhattan Project, and long served as a nuclear specialist for the Defense Department. In recent years, however, he has severed connections with all Government projects and thus is free to speak out on U.S. nuclear and weapons policies. Speak out he does. Last week at the University of Washington, Lapp not only criticized the U.S. decision to deploy a thin anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system, but also pointed out the damage the system could wreak on the very population it was intended to protect...
...move a political decision made to "deprive the Republicans of a defense issue," Lapp suggested that the U.S. should instead use its long-established deterrent policy to protect itself against possible ICBM attack by China in the 1970s. His proposal: a China Polaris patrol armed with high-yield nuclear weapons programmed to hit specific Chinese targets...
...readying his military machine for a full-scale war that "may break out again at any moment." Reinforcing Kim's threat, the Soviet Union ordered a powerful 13-vessel squadron into the Sea of Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing gesture, two smaller U.S. flattops and supporting ships maintained their close-in vigil...