Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to those bases and to a superior nuclear arsenal, the U.S. has always before been in a position to inflict what NATO's General Lauris Norstad once called "absolute" destruction on Russia. This capacity-the ability to smash Russia from close up and hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither...
...withdrawal of the Columbia team from the freshman race due to an out-break of flu left the Yardlings in a tough, two-way contest with Pennsylvania. That they finally won out, 26-31, may be ascribed largely to superior depth...
...laughed in a small, superior way. "What do you think--he's a hermit or something...
...Lake will have 7,275 tons of uranium mill capacity a day-about half the U.S. total. But Ambrosia Lake's mining men are plowing up surrounding areas in search of more ore. Floyd Odium's Lisbon Uranium Corp. is prospecting around nearby San Mateo Dome, and Superior Oil Co. (California), has struck ore 30 miles west of the Dysart mine. When atomic power becomes a commercial reality, dusty Ambrosia Lake expects to have a permanent base for its newfound prosperity...
...earlier day, Russia's Arctic force would not have presented much of a challenge to the traditionally superior, heavier-armed Western navies. But in the age of missiles, a warship is as big as the rocket it fires-and submarines may yet turn out to be the capital ships of naval war. Izvestia has already boasted that "the destructive power of rocket artillery reduces the significance of larger vessels in future naval war." Some of the long-range Soviet missiles tested in the past year were reportedly fired from shipboard off Kolguyev Island. Moscow says ''modern weapons...