Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alternatives. Except on Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa, there is remarkably little talk of curbing Peking's folly by hitting the Chinese before they are really strong enough to hit back. In Washington, a U.S. Congressman asked Secretary of State Dean Rusk why the U.S. had not "detonated that bomb for them"-in other words, blown up Peking's embryo nuclear establishment. Rusk replied: "We considered this but decided against it." In effect, such a decision, in all probability, would not be merely to take out a bomb or a plant, but to go to war with...
...probably the most thoroughly anticipated explosion in history. For years Western experts had been predicting that the Chinese would perform the feat before long. Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said so again. Last week, with consummate timing, less than a day after Nikita Khrushchev's downfall was announced, the Chinese finally did it. From a steel tower in the desert of western Sinkiang, north of the Himalayas, they exploded a crude nuclear device...
...convey the latent excitement, the almost unprecedented potential which his election implies. In domestic affairs, Johnson and Humphrey give the promise of a new progressive era in American history. In foreign affairs, the new Administration will undoubtedly continue the sophisticated and successful foreign policy of the Kennedy men, Secretaries Rusk and McNamara...
Yesterday's test caught few experts by surprise. On Sept. 29, Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced that the United States expected the Chinese to set off their first atomic bomb "in the near future...
...John Kennedy during the steel hassle in 1962, was making noises about a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). In South Viet Nam, the political and military situation was such that by November there might not be any pieces left for the U.S. to pick up. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week predicted that the Chinese Communists might explode their first nuclear device "in the near future," warned that within ten years the Chicoms would have the wherewithal to deliver an atomic assault on their enemies. And in New York City, the U.S. Government shamefacedly had to withdraw its case...