Word: shelterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deterrence which the United States has presumably adopted. I believe that an adequate civil defense program is not worth the money, that a greater contribution of deterrence can be made by expenditure on relatively invulnerable weapons systems and on greater mobility and fire power for our conventional forces. Bomb shelters, being an essentially static and inflexible strategic element, could probably in the course of time generate an offensive weapon that would nullify their value. For instance, trench warfare was rendered obsolete by the invention of noxious gases. The history of arms races indicates that such a development is most likely...
...most persuasive case for an adequate shelter program, which Mr. Schnur failed to make, and which I reject for the above reasons, is the possible contribution such a system would make to the deterrent posture of the United States... It is estimated that under current conditions, without an adequate civil defense program, nuclear war would result in sixty million American casualties. It is almost incredible that an American president would invoke such a holocaust in the case of a Soviet invasion limited to Europe. But if the enemy should ever come to believe that we would not carry...
...atmosphere created by current Civil Defense measures has unquestionably instilled in the American public a certain complacency about nuclear war. If bomb shelters are to be built, they should very clearly symbolize the threat of ultimate destruction. But when every drug store in every town carries a large stock of "do-it-yourself" bomb shelter kits, when Civil Defense authorities publicly argue about the most attractive design for an underground city, Civil Defense measures come to symbolize the prospects for ultimate security. But to accept such artificial security is to hide from the clearest and most terrifying reality...
...University's interest in the matter comes from its desire to prevent the shelter--however it might be built--from cutting off air and light from freshman dorms along Mass...
Some speculation went further, however, even mentioning the possibility of discussing the general future of the Square and sweeping renovation of its traffic snarls. One shelter idea involves an aluminum canopy that would cover the entire Harvard Square area...