Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deterrence by Anti-Missiles" [Feb. 24] left unsaid what must have been a central consideration in the Soviets' decision to deploy an operational ABM system. Soviet planners cannot have escaped the realization that our growing fleet of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines represents a challenge to their security entirely unmatched by their offensive or defensive arsenal. These submarines "on station" give the U.S. a guaranteed second-strike capability, a force in being that could reasonably be expected to survive the first blow and retaliate. I believe that the Soviets feel compelled to fashion some sort of "reply...
...possible use of nuclear weapons in Viet Nam, conceding that he is not equipped to decide the issue, Reagan observed: "The last person in the world that should be told we won't use them is the enemy in Viet Nam. They ought to go to bed every night thinking we will...
...angrily, kept any mention of the defection out of the official press and radio. In Washington, the State Department was just as embarrassed, fearing that the incident would jeopardize its chances for better relations with Russia and interfere with delicate discussions on Viet Nam and the pending treaties on nuclear proliferation and consular exchange...
After meeting for three days at the home of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a posh mansion in Brookline, the group condemned the use of nuclear bombs, even for peaceful purposes, including Project Plowshare, which plans to harness nuclear explosions for such projects as the digging of a new sea-level Panama Canal...
Known as the New England Assembly on Nuclear Proliferation, the group included a number of Harvard professors including Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government, and Richard E. Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, chaired the Assembly...