Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record of the Atomic Energy Committee under the chairmanship of Admiral Lewis L. Strauss has been anything but distinguished. The most publicized mishaps, the Oppenheimer case and the Dixon-Yates contract, have been only surface indications of Strauss' maladministration. Strauss, who has shown little belief in the Eisenhower theory of delegation of authority, has increasingly preempted the powers of the AEC to himself...
...consequence of his attempted one-man rule, the Commission has almost become a front for its chairman's foibles. Among these are a devotion to secrecy about the dangers of fall-out (except in the exchange of information with Britain, where Strauss was treated like royalty) and a Hoover-like faith in big business. One more side of Strauss' character is his determination to continue testing the big bombs. He is searching for a "clean" bomb, rather than limiting experiments to tactical weapons...
...Strauss revealed that West Germany plans to provide NATO with an army of only...
Taking his cue from U.S. experiments, Strauss wants the new German army to be small, highly trained "pentomic" groups, geared to operate independently in the event of atomic war. Concurrently, Defense Minister Strauss plans to form a highly organized and well-armed "militia" army which will eventually be bigger than West Germany's NATO force but committed to "home defense" only...
Typically, Strauss's Defense Ministry two days later insisted that West Germany "would honor its commitments to NATO." But West Germany's partners had been given a clear indication of what Strauss would be proposing at the NATO council meeting next month in Bonn...