Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, more people have been calling the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) information office to find out about the nuclear research reactor at MIT in Cambridge's backyard...
...know that there's so much conservatism in this area, we do stop and ask ourselves safety questions again," Otto Harling. director of MIT's nuclear research laboratory, said yesterday. "We're not near the ragged edge at all as far as safety is concerned...
...buildup. A number of critics have argued for a kind of punitive linkage - withholding SALT if the Soviets misbehave around the world. But it is hardly logical to "punish" the U.S.S.R. for having not quite 3,000 soldiers in Cuba by allowing it to have an extra 3,000 nuclear warheads, the number that the Soviets could add to their intercontinental missiles unless the lower SALT II ceilings are adopted...
...delicately placed the issue of Taiwan on a subsidiary level, choosing to treat it as a relatively minor internal Chinese dispute. What concerned him was the international context ?that is, the Soviet Union. To a long disquisition by Nixon on the question of which of the nuclear superpowers, the United States or the Soviet Union, presented a greater threat, Mao replied: "At the present time, the question of aggression from the United States or aggression from China is relatively small ... You want to withdraw some of your troops back on your soil; ours do not go abroad...
...President's distrust of the State Department led to secret missions to Peking and Moscow and the subtle nuances of conducting simultaneous summitry with the Soviets and Chinese. Included is a section remarkably a propos today: what the U.S. did when the Soviets tried to build a nuclear submarine base in Cuba in 1970. The entire second excerpt concerns what Kissinger caUs the agony of Viet Nam": the unannounced bombing of Cambodia and the attack on the sanctuaries there; the secret negotiations in Paris-how the premature "peace is at hand" statement came to be made; the Christmas bombing...