Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombers and hundreds of heavy 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers hold an overwhelming power margin over the U.S.S.R., reported the monthly Missiles and Rockets magazine last week. The proof, said M. and R., is that SAC aircraft are conducting "numerous and continuing" reconnaissance missions over the U.S.S.R., and the Russians have not been able to stop them. "It is true that modern Russian fighters attack our bombers with major advantages of altitude, speed and maneuverability. It is also true that they score hits. But so far no attacks have been made by the Russians with missiles, either because they...
...neutralized Europe next door to Soviet land power, said Acheson, would be incapable of 1) building up confidence and economic health or 2) fending off Russian conquest by infiltration. "In many, perhaps most cases, an attack by Soviet forces faced with only token resistance would not be necessary, as it was not in Czechoslovakia in 1948 or in Poland today. Soviet purposes could be accomplished by intimidation, with the lesson of Hungary in everyone's mind. Can one doubt that, were it not for the American connection, there would be no more independent life in Western Europe than there...
Power Misunderstood. "The only deterrent to the imposition of Russian will in Western Europe is the belief that, from the outset of any such attempt, American power would be employed in stopping it, and, if necessary, would inflict upon the Soviet Union injury which the Moscow regime would not wish to suffer. The regime will not believe that this will happen if the U.S. and Western Europe are separated and stand alone...
...million contract awarded the Drake-Puget Sound Construction Co. for a job near Mount McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America's finest defilade if enemy missiles should fall short: the Alaska Range, topped by Mount McKinley...
Neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. has an operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), nor will either have one for two to three years. To date, the Russians are known to have test-fired as many as five ICBMs, have scored at least one hit on a target at a 3,400-mile range; the U.S. has test-fired four models of the Air Force's Convair ICBM Atlas, has scored two hits at a programed initial 500-to 600-mile range. Atlas, U.S. missilery's prime weapon (cost: about $4,000,000 apiece) is fueled with a mixture...