Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train missileers, the U.S. had to start from scratch-and is only just beginning. The job was given to SAC, which has had to assemble crews and drill into them the sciences of inertial guidance, pneumatics, electronics, hydraulics, cryogenics. After hours and hours of such studies, the trainees are sent on to specialized courses on various missiles (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman), then are assigned to combat crews...
Northrop is already planning other applications for VIPS-submarines, missile countdowns, fire warnings in public buildings. But Gina belongs to the Air Force. Said one SAC pilot last week: "That dame has plenty of oomph in hervoice...
...destruction of the country's capacity to retaliate," or an attack on "the corporate body of the enemy state itself" (in Admiral Burke's Phrase). Piel says that our military experts base their shelter recommendations on the assumption that the enemy is most likely to knock out SAC bases and missile sites. Since the bulk of the population will not, then, be directly attacked, the dangers of a nuclear explosion itself need not seriously concern them. It follows from this reasoning that what the population must be protected against is fall-out. Or, as Piel puts, it, "The fact...
...this reason, President Kennedy called the 50-megaton test "a political rather than a military act,'' pointed out that the U.S. could make a 50-megaton bomb any time it wished (for that matter, each SAC B-52 carries two 25-megaton bombs, which the U.S. considers more effective than a 50-megatoner). But, said John Kennedy, such a bomb would presently be "primarily a mass killer of people in war" rather than a nuclear weapon of any real military use. "Fear is the oldest weapon in history," said Kennedy. "Throughout the life of mankind, it has been...
...choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer that attacks the sac surrounding the developing fetus in pregnant women, methotrexate has "in many cases" brought about absolute cures...