Word: polarise
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Not so, retorted a high-ranking French official. France, he insisted, will have its first 50 Mirage IV A-bombers in service by December 1965, on schedule; expects to have its own H-bomb "well before" 1970; and is actually ahead of schedule with its missile-launching submarine, now due...
The U.S. was still pushing its long-term plan for a surface Polaris fleet manned by mixed crews. However, Britain has little enthusiasm for the idea, while West Germany and Italy, which were both enthusiastic at first, have now indicated that they would rather sink their money in multimanned Polaris...
Thus, if elected, Wilson would "dene-gotiate" Britain's agreement at Nassau to build a Polaris submarine fleet, and hope thereby to discourage other nations from building independent deterrents. He is strongly opposed to giving Germany a finger on the trigger, which "would be highly provocative to the Soviet...
Change of Mind. At the same time, the U.S. insisted that the British subs must be "multinational," that is, they were to be part of a NATO deterrent in which other allies might in time pool their own strike forces, if and when they acquired nuclear weapons. To placate its...
(MLF) should consist of Polaris-armed surface vessels instead. Though it would be of little strategic value, a 25-ship surface force would cost only $500 million yearly, far less than a submarine fleet. To most Europeans, the strongest argument for the MLF was that it would give West Germany...