Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Uneasily aware that the increasingly prosperous and powerful nations of Western Europe would not forever accept total U.S. control of nuclear weapons, the U.S. offered more than two years ago to give them a voice in their disposition and use-but left it to Europe to devise a formula. It...
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...
All this has taken just 15 minutes from the receipt and authentication of the coded order. From then on, a missile can be fired every minute for 15 minutes. Those missiles are the Ethan Allen's reason for being. And in the Ethan Allen and 40 other Polaris submarines...