Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty Committee was organized by the Boston Area Faculty Group on Public Issues, which has sponsored similar advertisements to protest exorbitant Civil Defense spending, to urge U.S. acceptance of the 1962 nuclear test ban treaty, and to seek a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Vietnam...
...included the fact that 1) Jackie Kennedy sent a letter expressing hope for freedom from nuclear terror to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev after the assassination, 2) John Kennedy was planning, after being elected to a second term, to sack Dean Rusk, appoint Defense Chief Robert S. McNamara the new Secretary of State, and move Robert Kennedy, at his own request, from his post as Attorney General to Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, 3) J.F.K. was taking French lessons so that he could negotiate directly with President Charles de Gaulle, 4) Kennedy's Bible, which was used to administer...
...doubts. There is thus increasing confusion about both our basic purpose and our tactics, and there is increasing fear that the course now being pursued may lead us irrevocably into a major land war in Asia-a war which many feel could not be won without recourse to nuclear weapons, if then...
...certify the value of what one writer called "the atomic bomb of Mao's thought," China exploded its fifth nuclear device last week at its Lop Nor test site in Sinkiang. As the Chinese press reported it, the test was "a heavy blow to the plot of U.S. imperialism and Soviet modern revisionism." A more objective analysis will have to wait until the fallout drifts into the hands of Western scientists...
...hope of the atomic age, when it dawned, was that if radioactivity did not kill mankind, it would cure it. It has done neither, and as time has passed, the fact has become increasingly clear that the greater value of nuclear medicine is in its use as a tool for diagnosis. "Therapy today constitutes no more than 1% of our activities," said Dr. James Quinn, director of nuclear medicine at Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital, before a year-end meeting of the American College of Radiology...