Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iowa's John Culver detected in his Second Congressional District a similar sentiment: "Although they don't like to see our power muscle-bound in a nuclear age," he said, "I think the people here are inclined to favor Johnson's policy...
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned, during a CBS television interview, that nuclear escalation in Viet Nam would be "sheer lunacy." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai promised North Viet Nam nuclear weapons if the U.S. uses them. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a formal query to Secretary of State Dean Rusk asking if there was any truth to the nuke talk...
...rumors were whipped up by an anonymous telephone call four days later to one of William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee staffers. The caller urged the committee to investigate the reason why Columbia University Physicist Richard Garwin and several other nuclear-weapons experts had been sent recently on a secret mission to Viet Nam. Hence Fulbright's letter to Rusk-who brusquely denied that the Garwin mission had anything to do with nuclear weapons...
Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...
Formidable Fleets. Since 1957, Russia has added to its navy virtually all of the ships that now make up its impressive striking power. It has a modern force of 19 cruisers, 170 destroyers, missile frigates and destroyer escorts, and 560 motor torpedo boats. Its 360 submarines, 55 of them nuclear, give Russia the world's largest submarine fleet, far exceeding the U.S. total of 155 subs but falling short of the U.S. fleet of 75 nuclear subs...