Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was also plenty of unfinished business, which Johnson urged the Congress to complete: a draft system based on selection by lot, a licensing and registration law for firearms, and the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which has been pending in the Senate since July...
Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense-designate Melvin Laird, who had gained a solid reputation as an expert in military affairs in 16 years in the House, told the Senate Armed Services Committee what it wanted to hear. He was in favor of staying ahead of the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race. He said that the invasion of Czechoslovakia had set back attempts to negotiate an arms-limitation treaty as much as twelve months. Added Laird: "We have to start preparing all over again...
Loaded and Ready. The nuclear-powered, 85,350-ton "Big E," the world's largest fighting ship and first nuclear-powered surface war vessel, had been performing routine maneuvers on her way to a fourth tour in Viet Nam waters. It was 0819 hours. On the stern, 30 Navy aircraft were ready to be catapulted aloft. Loaded with 500-lb. bombs, rockets and air-to-air missiles, the planes of Carrier Air Wing Nine were going to wage a simulated attack on the barren island of Kahoolawe, some 85 miles southeast of Honolulu...
...nation of organizers, the U.S. has harnessed its new scientific knowledge to all kinds of new technology: the production of electricity by nuclear energy, communication by satellite, the Salk vaccine, oral contraceptives and a whole new spectrum of antibiotics - to say nothing of learning how to put a man on the moon...
...flaw in the American psyche-and one of its strengths-is its single-minded concentration on one Big Problem at a time. In the past four decades, the nation's energies and imagination have been largely absorbed by the specter of economic instability, war, cold war and the nuclear arms race. At the same time, the rural American was becoming the urban American. The Negro became even more restive for social and economic equity. And the great engine of American success, industry, was practically given carte blanche to pollute the air and the water, with no implicit social responsibility...