Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia has some 500 subs to the U.S.'s 200, is building more than 50 a year to the U.S.'s half a dozen or so. The U.S. has three nuclear subs: Nautilus, Seawolf and the brand-new killer sub Skate. The Russian navy may have no atomic subs so far, but the new edition of Jane's Fighting Ships published last week reported that the Russians are designing what they call "under water satellites": nuclear-powered subs capable of launching IRBMs...
...hard and fast acceptance of the U.S. plan to establish missile bases in Europe. Said he: "I don't favor these so-called agreements in principle." He had apparently given little weight to the talk of new East-West negotiations that had swept Europe in the wake of Russian Premier Bulganin's preconference notes to NATO nations (TIME. Dec. 23). "If Communism is stubborn for the wrong, let us be even more steadfast for the right," he wrote in an article published in LIFE last week, and dismissed the question of a new round of East-West talks...
...Russians did not even wait for the NATO chiefs to get back home. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko briskly dismissed the NATO chiefs' proffer of a new foreign ministers' conference on disarmament. "We are in fact invited to sit again at a conference table with the same NATO members with whom we have patiently negotiated until now," he told the Supreme Soviet, "and to launch again into sterile negotiations which do not advance the cause of disarmament one whit." In almost the same breath and on almost the same grounds, he scuttled any idea of renewed Russian participation...
Close to the Nerve. Russia's goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin plunged into this already troubled atmosphere with purposeful skill. In separate notes to NATO nations Bulganin warned that the placement of U.S. missiles in Europe would "seriously" increase "the danger of a new war." In each the Russian Premier carefully jabbed at the recipient's most-exposed nerve. Examples...
Higher & Higher. Europe wanted reassurance that the U.S.. despite its vulnerability to Russian nuclear assault-whether by aircraft in the present or ICBM in the near future-would really risk its cities to save Europe if not itself threatened. But if NATO means anything, Europe's safety still depends on the U.S., and will for a long time to come. Without the U.S.'s retaliatory power, Europe would not long be safe on a continent alone with Russia, and Europe knew it. Britain had already made clear its willingness to accept enough IRBMs to stock four bases...