Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tilling the soil...
...Committee on Biology and Medicine, if the U.S. wishes to survive it will need shelters for birds, animals, and plants, as well as for people. After the battle, according to John A. McCone, an estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful...
...editorialized support for Canada's continued reliance upon conventional weapons, but Diefenbaker's test compromise suggestion--that the warheads be stored on the American side of the border and rushed into Canada when needed--is hardly that. If Diefenbaker can stomach the prospect of firing nuclear weapons from Canadian soil, one wonders why he objects to storing them on it in the meanwhile...
...presence of heavy weapons nearby. Was this good for Americans? No. But the Soviet people have lived in the presence of these weapons for 12 years." This taste of danger, he suggested, may make Americans more willing to accept Soviet proposals to withdraw all American weapons to American soil...
...councils? None at all. Its contributions to allied fighting strength are sufficiently meager-it is two divisions behind its commitments in Germany, it withholds its Mediterranean fleet from NATO, keeps most of its metropolitan territory out of the air warning system, and even prohibits foreign nuclear weapons on French soil. Still, sheer geography gives France a veto on NATO planning. Could France be ignored in the tariff discussions of the 40-odd members of GATT, or in OECD, the European economic coordinating group that grew out of the Marshall Plan? Hardly, since the economies of all Western European nations...