Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told members of two Senate committees that the Soviet Union has gone ahead to install hundreds of giant S59 intercontinental ballistic missiles, each of which can deliver up to 25-megaton hydrogen warheads. (The U.S. Minuteman ICBM carries a relatively modest one-megaton punch.) The SS-9, said Laird, is far too potent a weapon for the mere destruction of cities: since the Soviets must have it in their inventory for the purpose of knocking out a tougher target, the U.S. ICBMs in their silos...
First Attack. Therefore, Laird concluded, the Soviets have done more than construct a missile system restricted to retaliation in case the U.S. strikes first. They have gone on to build missiles that can only be intended to render the U.S. incapable of responding to a Soviet attack-which means that they propose to make the first attack themselves. "There is no question about that," said Laird...
Canadian Debate. While the Soviet press handled Nixon's ABM announcement routinely, there was anxiety and outrage in Canada. Since the first Safeguard bases would be a few miles south of the Canadian border, and since Chinese or Soviet ICBMs would come in over the North Pole, the nuclear-armed ABMs sent to intercept them would probably be detonated over Canada. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was kept posted of Lyndon Johnson's Sentinel plans, but he was not informed in advance of President Nixon's switch to Safeguard. In an emergency debate in Ottawa, Socialist Leader Tommy...
...nation disarmament meetings in Geneva last week, the Soviet Union proposed a draft agreement forbidding any use of the ocean floor for military purposes-which would force the U.S. to abandon the network of electronic devices that the Navy either has or intends to place on the seabed to keep track of submarine traffic. However, until there is agreement on limiting a much wider array of armaments, the U.S. is not likely to give up its seabed monitoring gear...
...Viet Nam, he rendered the disappointing (if far from final) verdict that no reduction in the number of U.S. troops there seems foreseeable now. Testifying before two Senate committees, he vigorously defended the Administration's proposed anti-ballistic missile system, which has widespread opposition, by reporting that the Soviet Union has made considerable advances in offensive weaponry. Then he disclosed that the new defense budget could be cut by no more than $500,000,000-after President Nixon had earlier held out hope of a $2.5 billion slash from the Johnson Administration's $81.5 billion estimate...