Word: polarisation
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On NATO, Kennedy pledged the U.S. to increase its capability to wage conventional war in Europe. He asked Canada to do the same. To strengthen NATO's atomic force, Kennedy again offered to give the command five Polaris submarines that would "make clear our own intentions and commitments."
A $20,000 Education. Though they may have entered the Navy with a sketchy scientific schooling, Rickover's recruits soar in his rarefied atmosphere. "I had the best math teachers in the world," gloats one sailor. "It's like getting a $20,000 education," says another. The most...
Higher Threshold. Adenauer's gravest cause of uneasiness was his suspicion that the new Administration was softening in its resolve to use nuclear weapons to defend Western Europe against a Russian attack with conventional forces. Adenauer knew that the new Administration wanted to build up NATO's conventional...
THE NATO ALLIANCE. Kennedy and Macmillan agreed that NATO's military, political and economic joints are creaking badly. Kennedy summoned former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who had just completed a study of NATO, to present tentative U.S. views. In the conversations that followed, the President urged that NATO...
¶ In M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Lab was done the major U.S. work in developing radar. From M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Lab came advanced gyroscopic bombsights and the inertial guidance systems for the Polaris missile and nuclear submarines. M.I.T.'s Lincoln Lab worked out the U.S.'s...