Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future choice. To Senator Knowland and millions of other Americans, such a proposition is likely to sound like the thing they fear most-the yielding of sovereignty. Nevertheless, the U.S. this year needs to reflect upon and discuss such a basic revision of the U.N. The reality of thermonuclear weapons poses the problem of international law in a way that can not be brushed...
...account minimizes his own part in that development far beneath the credit given him by other scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. Says Teller: "I want to claim credit in one respect only. I believed and continued to believe in the possibility and the necessity of developing the thermonuclear bomb." Wholly aside from his theoretical contributions, this is Teller's lien upon the gratitude of his countrymen, that he was not diverted from the path of scientific advance by confusion over nonscientific considerations...
...advent of the thermonuclear bomb means that the first 20 or 30 hours of a major war would probably be decisive for the tight-packed British Isles, and Britain must therefore go all out to build up an atomic bomber force, capable of destroying Soviet bomber bases-either in coordination with the U.S. Strategic Air Command or independently...
...Soviet Union already are near a stage where each has the power to smash the other into radioactive rubble. Yet with hundreds of bombers soon to be poised for instant take-off with thermonuclear bombs, neither nation could be confident of its power to stay the other's deadly reflexes...
...Korea and Indo-China, says the paper, are symbols (especially to the Communists) of how a nation that can massively retaliate may yet be challenged successfully. In the long run, the erosion of repeated U.S. failures of the Indo-China type could be nearly as disastrous as all-out thermonuclear war. Therefore the U.S. must do more than maintain its strategic deterrent: it must also establish a tactical deterrent. It must be able to punish local aggressions with such speed and force that the Communists will finally call a halt. This is the concept of the double deterrent...