Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March, speaking of Soviet intentions, Secretary Laird said flatly: "They are going for a first-strike capability [the ability to so devastate the American arsenal that the U.S. could not retaliate]. There is no question about that." That statement flew in the face of testimony by Pentagon intelligence experts only a few months before, contending that the Russians were doing no such thing. Laird's assertion drew charges that ABM advocates have altered intelligence estimates and used classified information that helps their case, while downplaying data that damages it. Laird has since modified his March statement; he now says...
...should launch a few missiles at them by accident or by design. Strategically, the argument for the project is that if an ABM defense guaranteed the survival of enough missiles to inflict prohibitive damage on an attacker's homeland, the aggressor would be deterred from risking the first strike...
With all this overkill, the critics ask, would the U.S. not have enough of its deterrent left for an overwhelming retaliatory strike even if the Soviets did wipe out most of the U.S. ICBMs? No one knows for sure. Some of the remaining ICBMs might misfire. The B-52s and B-58s are vulnerable to Soviet fighters and antiaircraft missiles; many of them probably would not reach their targets. Laird hints at Soviet antisubmarine warfare developments that may seriously threaten the Polaris submarine fleet in a few years. Further, he says that Moscow is developing an advanced ABM that could...
...convinced. Among the most outspoken is an M.I.T. triumvirate-Jerome Wiesner, who was scientific adviser to President Kennedy; George Rathjens, recently of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Steven Weinberg, a physicist. In a critique released last week, the trio argued "In order to launch a first strike of the sort envisioned by Secretary Laird, the Soviets would need SS-9s with extraordinary accuracy and high reliability; they would need to solve the problem of coordinating an attack on our bombers and Minutemen; they would need to deal with our nuclear-armed tactical aircraft; they would need...
Even proposed wage increases of that size no longer always win union acceptance. Ironworkers in St. Louis have been on strike for six weeks against an employer offer to lift their wage-and-benefit package from $6.03 to $9.03 an hour over the next five years. The union likes the money, but does not want to sign any contract that will bind it for more than three years...