Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOREIGN POLICY : Under the pressure of the Sputniks and Russian rocket diplomacy, the Administration began a major effort to renew bipartisan foreign policy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred for 2½ hours with foreign-policy experts of the Truman Administration, e.g., former Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. and onetime State Department Policy Planner Paul H. Nitze. Subject of the meeting: plans for the Western heads-of-government meeting at the December NATO conference in Paris. Note of anxiety in the new planning: the U.S. will have a workable intermediate-range ballistic missile well before it has an intercontinental...
...uneasy autumn of 1957, the U.S. is reluctantly grasping the full, unwelcome meaning of Russian-made metal objects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully fractured the U.S.'s contented expectation that, behind an impenetrable shield of technological superiority, the nation could go on with the pursuit of happiness and business as usual this year and the next and the next. Now the U.S. has to live with the uncomfortable realization that Russia is racing with clenched-teeth determination to surpass the West in science-and is rapidly narrowing the West's shielding lead...
...system itself, set them up in a never-never land of unlimited funds, limousines, dachas, and even-in the last few years-freedom of thought. The Sputnik I that came as a shocking surprise to the U.S. public was no surprise to U.S. scientists. From keeping an eye on Russian research through scientific journals, from reports of colleagues who visited Russia, and from meeting their Russian opposite numbers at international scientific gatherings, U.S. scientists were well aware that Russia's scientific venture was accelerating fast...
...very particular sense, the menacing Russian advance was no surprise to Edward Teller, 49, the rumpled, shaggy-browed, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist, the "father of the H-bomb" and now associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was uniquely endowed by his scientific talents, a first-hand familiarity with Middle European tyranny and his deep affection for his adopted U.S. to see what most of his fellow countrymen could not see. Of all the U.S. scientists on campus, in government, in industry, Teller worked hardest and most belligerently to send the warning that the Russians...
Judging from recent Russian hardware in the sky, someone will soon plant his country's flag on the surface of the moon and nations will build Sputniks big enough to carry their own arsenals...