Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
¶ Backing up Polaris is the long-range, solid-fueled Minuteman, the Air Force's second-generation missile. Kennedy's program: 150 additional Minutemen, plus a new stand-by production line. The plan to put Minutemen on mobile railroad cars was pigeonholed, but three additional fixed installations were...
Shortly after he took hold, the new Secretary made what is called in Pentagonese some "quick and dirty fixes." Given the charter by President Kennedy, he rescinded Dwight Eisenhower's morale-damaging order calling for a cut in the number of military dependents abroad (to slow down the dollar...
¶ 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...