Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have already indicated their willingness to participate, although they have not yet been told how much of the expense they will have to bear. The British promise to assign some 180 of their Vulcan bombers to NATO's new nuclear command, and the U.S. probably will contribute some SAC planes. But there are many sticky details still to be worked out. Who, for example, will turn the firing keys? And under what conditions? McNamara's Pentagon aides insist that there is plenty of time to iron out such details; after all, the NATO Polaris force will not come...
...venom is to get stung. But the method is plainly neither pleasant nor practical. Scientists anxious to gather the poison usually settle for a more cautious approach. They collect live insects, grab them one at a time with a pair of tweezers, then deftly slice out the venom sac; or else they persuade the stinging insects to discharge their poison through a rubber membrane...
...crew commander in SAC. Thank you for exposing the book Fail-Safe for what it is-complete fiction. It is interesting to note that neither author took the time to visit SAC headquarters to learn how Positive Control actually operates...
...start and end Fail-Safe with the thesis that war by accident is possible-terrifyingly possible-an assumption already granted by SAC, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense McNamara, Premier Khrushchev, and half a dozen Nobel prizewinning scientists. TIME, on the other hand, seems to be asserting that accidental war is fanciful, unlikely, and that even to discuss it comes close to being unpatriotic...
...FACT : SAC has no such machines...