Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aggressive act from Cuba would be treated by the U.S. as an attack by the Soviet Union itself. And the U.S. would retaliate against Russia with the sudden and full force of its thermonuclear might...
SANE has tried, at great expense, to publicize the magnitude of possible disaster, and to exploit the consequent fear. This was not successful, because the very nature of thermonuclear catastrophe, in which whole cities and nations burst into flame, makes the horror impersonal. It becomes abstract, like the galloping leukemia rate...hardly relevant to any given individual...
...would like to be measure fierce accusations of columny and impotence lightly, the U.S. is alarmingly susceptible to warlike recommendations. The present temper of the Congress and of the press holds the very real capacity to bully the Administration into a stupidly aggressive action that would likely lead to thermonuclear...
...Administration argument against direct action to oust Castro is that Khrushchev might retaliate by stirring up trouble in other parts of the world, possibly setting off a thermonuclear war. But if Khrushchev wants such a war, he can start it or set it off any time he wants...
...presumed from the record of recent history-he does not want such a war, it is improbable that he would feel compelled to risk thermonuclear destruction to save Castro...