Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strategic Target Planning board, which is responsible for assigning hot war targets to the various services according to capability, is under heavy fire from a diehard Navy clique in the Pentagon. Reason: the director of the targeting board is an Air Force officer, SAC General Thomas Power, who, to the diehards' way of thinking, ought not to have much to say about the war missions of the Navy's cherished Polaris missile submarines. The Navy critics are not mollified by the fact that a vice admiral is Power's deputy...
Anything less than this-for example a situation where the U.S. depends on nuclear bombers based at easy-target airfields-will provide an almost irresistible temptation for a potential enemy to strike while he has an edge in missiles, and thus eliminate U.S. nuclear forces with only a minimal risk of retaliation. At the very least the U.S. must strive for nuclear forces that can withstand a first blow-by dispersing and protecting its bombers, rushing missile bases underground, and mobilizing such missiles as Minuteman (on trains) and Polaris (in submarines). At best, all the U.S. can hope to achieve...
...Moscow, the Russians revealed that their immediate target was U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. operation in the Congo. In a savage 1,500-word statement, they attacked Hammarskjold as an "imperialist lackey" and an "accomplice and organizer of murder," and demanded that he be thrown out of office. Simultaneously, Moscow announced immediate recognition of the Communist-backed Stanleyville rebel regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, onetime Vice Premier in the Lumumba government, and promised "all possible assistance and support" for it. To an anxious world, it seemed a clear threat that Russia was ready to intervene physically...
...devastating foil loss. Wires running up through the foilmen's clothing and passing to the tip of the weapon are kept taut by a spring-loaded reel which broke during the first round. The wires, which connect to flashing lights registering contact between the foil and the target, had to be hand-wound and interfered with the action...
Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah presents two faces when he deals with foreign investors. With one face he encourages them to come in and help Ghana grow; with the other he winks at his trusted lieutenants, who talk darkly of nationalizing foreign enterprises. A favorite target has been the seven British-owned gold mines. From exports of $28 million in gold a year, the country gets a tenth of its income...