Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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- A cutback in U.S. bases overseas. An even older Moscow propaganda cliche. The U.S. has shut down missile bases in Italy and Turkey when the arrival of Polaris submarines made the launching sites obsolete; other bases will close only if they become superfluous.
Government buyers, insistent on the nearest thing to perfection in space components, have been the prime driving force behind industry's growing interest in nondestructive testing. Ever since loose solder balls of only a thousandth of an inch in diameter were found inside transistors in the Polaris missile, the...
"Monstrous Nonsense." Charged with the halfhearted mission of winning British support for the $5 billion MLF was Admiral Claude Ricketts, U.S. deputy chief of naval operations, who has doubled of late as the Pentagon's Multi-mixmaster. Strategically, he argued, a force of 25 Polaris vessels cruising Europe'...
But the British, who are already committed to building a $1 billion Polaris submarine fleet by 1970, reply that they cannot afford to pour more money into anything as theoretical as MLF. Europe's most telling objection to the project is that even if the allies did chip in...
Naughty Questions. The British approve of its primary aim, to satisfy West Germany's demand for a bigger role in NATO's nuclear defense, but argue that they cannot afford to build their own independent Polaris submarine fleet and contribute as well to MLF, whose 20 to 25...