Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik I, the Russian earth satellite launched on October 4, will plunge to earth sometime during the first week in January, Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, predicted yesterday...
Whipple made the forecast on the basis of October and November observations of the satellite and on comparison with the behavior of Sputnik's rocket, which is presumed to have fallen to earth on the night of November...
...force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises: "The Soviets will almost certainly have a strategic ballistic missile in this period." "The Soviets have announced intentions of launching an earth satellite in 1957. Western scientists credit them with this capability...
Schemes & Dreams. Norstad's report, which went to all NATO members more than two months ago, is the basis of U.S. military proposals for next week's summit conference. With the Sputnik, the establishment of IRBM bases in Europe has taken on an added significance for the U.S., as a necessary counter to the Soviet missile threat to Turkey, Europe and Britain, to say nothing of its ICBM threat to North America. Though final arrangements will be left for later negotiation (since the U.S. does not yet have an operational IRBM), the U.S. will offer missiles...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND FOREIGN POLICY, by Henry A. Kissinger. A book by a Harvard political scientist that, though pre-Sputnik, is still must reading for top military and diplomatic planners. Author Kissinger warns that no Soviet shifts of policy must obscure the basic fact that each new move is a step towards world domination, brilliantly argues that the U.S. must be ready and willing to fight small wars to a winning finish if the world is not to be lost through a succession of new Koreas...