Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar stations in Turkey have counted hundreds of firings of 800-mile Russian intermediate-range ballistic missiles (v. 30-40 U.S. IRBM firings...
...fission process, nuclear reactors produce a gas-Krypton 85-which hangs in the atmosphere. The U.S. can take careful readings of Krypton 85 in the air, subtract what it knows it has put there, subtract what the British have put there, and assign the balance to Russian origin. Making an even less exact calculation, U.S. experts guesstimate that the Russians must have something like 3,000 nuclear weapons. The U.S. may have at least three times that, but it does not make much difference: nuclear parity is achieved when each has enough to destroy the other...
...Soviet refugees say that high-altitude U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes flying in from the West made a nighttime penetration of Russian airspace in late 1956 or early 1957. MIG-17s from the Moscow air defense district scrambled to meet them, could not get up to their altitude (above 50,000 ft.). The commander of the Moscow air defense zone is reported to have been fired after this episode...
...Russians have a military air fleet of between 18,000 and 20,000 planes, mostly jets. Their bombing force-about equal in number to that of the U.S. Strategic Air Command-consists of about 1,500 jets and turboprops. Most of this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber...
...success of Russian education in technical fields has caused scientists and government officials to advise the study of Russian, Horace G. Lunt '41, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, suggested...