Word: safeguard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Professor Abram Chayes, the study included a paper by a Nobel laureate, Physicist Hans Bethe, as well as contributions by Arthur Goldberg, Theodore Sorensen, Bill Moyers and other veterans of service in high places. As expected, since Kennedy commissioned the review, the report contained few kind words for Safeguard, the Nixon Administration's proposed ABM system...
...independent study of the Safeguard antiballistic missile system released yesterday by a Harvard law professor and the provost of M.I.T. concludes that "there is no need for a decision to employ the Sentinel/Safeguard ABM system at this time...
Skeptical Mood. On Capitol Hill, opponents of ABM claimed last week that their mail was running heavily against Safeguard. There was a growing mood of skepticism about military spending in general, and a fear that the $7 billion ABM system might lead to further acceleration of the arms race...
...continuing controversy over the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system, the Administration is embarrassed by lagging support in Congress and in the country. Representing the White House, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird refuses to settle for anything less than Safeguard, arguing that it is the "minimal step necessary at this time to ensure the security of the American people." But on Capitol Hill the Nixon ABM proposal is faced with diminished backing and is undermining Republican solidarity. There is concern among Nixon advisers that the President could suffer his first defeat this month when ABM comes to a vote...
...those against Safeguard countered that in seven years, by the time it is fully developed, the system may well be obsolete. Moreover, it can never be tested because of the 1963 Test Ban Treaty. They argued further that if Russia ever launched a massive saturation strike on U.S. second-strike missile sites, the proposed Safeguard system would be capable of stopping only an insignificant number of incoming ICBMs...