Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter-century ago, they played a game of nuclear chicken, bringing the planet terrifyingly close to destruction. Last week in Moscow, many of the same men who were involved in the Cuban missile crisis met to discuss the confrontation. In a form of diplomatic glasnost, senior Americans, Soviets and Cubans for the first time traded candid observations on the drama that had the world holding its breath for 13 perilous days in October...
...believed that the Soviets were planting nuclear missiles in Cuba to counter American installation of warheads in Turkey. But the Soviet missiles were intended, at least in part, to neutralize the threat of a U.S. invasion of the island, which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuba's Fidel Castro believed to be imminent. Despite the movement of U.S. air and land forces to the southeastern U.S. in the early fall of 1962 and the fact that an invasion was proposed to Kennedy as a serious option (he rejected it), McNamara insists that such an action was never in the works...
Although Bundy writes several times that arms control agreements are necessary to reduce nuclear danger, he continues to suggest a complete disarmament treaty is unachievable because each country could not be sure if the other was truly complying with the deal. However, it is this very notion of mistrust that perpetuates and adds to present distrust...
...must ask ourselves if we can accept Bundy's assertion that complete disarmament is impossible, considering the broad range of leaders who now have nuclear warheads at their disposal. We can be encouraged by Bundy's intricate descriptions of previous politicians whose sane choices rectified dangerous situations, but, as he himself writes, the world's future depends upon the continuity of this sanity...
...deadly MX missile, which carries ten nuclear warheads, is stationed in hardened concrete silos designed to withstand a near-miss by an atom bomb. But at least one of the 50 MX's deployed by the Air Force over the past three years has trouble standing up. The Pentagon confirmed last week that the warheads from five MX's at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming were removed after one of the rockets slipped from its moorings and fell as much as a foot inside its underground silo last August. An investigation determined that the missile's fall...