Word: thermonuclear
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...take over, Russia will become another West Germany and Japan with an abundance of consumer goods. If the Pentagon disarms unilaterally and they take over, the United States will become another Soviet Republic with free health and education services. Either course will end the demonic rush to thermonuclear extermination and result in a better life for all. Henry Ratliff
...Washington, the President is warned via the hot line that any nuclear intervention in Europe will result in a total thermonuclear assault on the U.S. After several agonizing seconds, the President decides that he cannot take the chance and refuses to order any of NATO'S missiles into action. Meanwhile, France and Britain launch submarine-based missiles targeted on Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. The Soviets detect the oncoming attack, assume Washington has defied their ultimatum and unleash 50 ICBMs against the U.S. Given only 30 minutes warning, the President now has no choice. He pushes the button. World...
...arrival in the 1940's of nuclear weapons left the Russian military confused. Stalin wanted them, but he hardly appreciated the revolution in warfare which they had brought about. His successors wavered for a while, torn between the desire to obtain their own stockpile of atomic and thermonuclear bombs, and the fear instilled in them by the American theory that nuclear war is suicidal. Finally, the matter was turned over to high-level committees composed of political figures, military personnel, and scientists. These specialists addressed themsleves to the fundamental question: is there or is there not political-military utility...
Sakharov thus becomes the first well-known human casualty of the cold war that has erupted between Moscow and Washington since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He had dared to speak out openly against his country's coup in Kabul. Always deeply fearful of thermonuclear war, the physicist had called upon the United Nations and the U.S.S.R. to arrange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. In a statement to foreign journalists, Sakharov said: "The situation is so tragic, dramatic and dangerous that we must all concentrate on how to prevent a chain reaction that could have unpredictable...
...Americana. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped set up what became known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) as part of a global network of anti-Soviet alliances. In effect, Dulles was drawing a line in the dust that the Soviets dared not step across lest they incur the thermonuclear wrath of the West. That line ran along the northern frontiers of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, which were all members of CENTO. In keeping with Afghanistan's policy of nonalignment, it remained beyond the American "security perimeter" and was therefore vulnerable to its giant neighbor...