Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISSILES. Discussing the U.S. arsenal of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, Nixon declared that Dwight Eisenhower left office in 1961 bequeathing to the U.S. a 50% advantage over the Soviet Union. Today, Nixon maintained, U.S. superiority in this "crucial weapon" is only marginal-and diminishing daily...
...Russians have approximately 150 heavy Bear bombers that can reach the U.S. and get home again without refueling. Nixon's figure can only be attained by including the Soviet force of some 700 relatively slow, medium-range aircraft that could fly only one-way missions without air-to-air refueling...
...SUBMARINES. When the Democrats assumed power, the U.S. had 14 nuclear subs, the Russians none. Today the U.S. fleet has 76 atom-fueled submarines and the Soviet Union...
American submarines can launch 656 missiles, while Soviet undersea craft have fewer than 80 missiles in their nu clear magazines...
...Russians have given him some reason to worry in the form of bitter propaganda attacks by the Soviet and Warsaw Pact press and furtive attempts to subvert Tito's control over the rival ethnic groups in his country. As a result, Tito has tightened his internal-security system and reactivated his World War II partisan system, which fought the Nazis to a standstill. In addition, he has ordered war supplies to be stashed away in the country's formidable mountains, and has massed his army along the likely invasion routes...