Word: thermonuclear
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...that he was hoping to shock the West into negotiations on Berlin and disarmament, negotiations in which the premier obviously felt he would be dealing from strength to Western weakness. In addition, Khrushchev was gambling that the neutrals would try to pressure the U.S. into concessions to avoid a thermonuclear holocaust...
...momentarily. In the meantime. Russia would stand revealed to the world as the atomic aggressor. Thus, Kennedy's first public statement, issued Wednesday night at 9:50, declared that the Soviet Union's decision "presents a threat to the entire world by increasing the dangers of a thermonuclear holocaust.'' But the statement left Kennedy's own plans purposefully vague; it said merely that the Soviet move made it necessary for the U.S. to decide "what its own national interests require...
...mistaken for weakness." At some point amidst the amiability and the inability to reach every agreement, Khrushchev broke out in one of his flights of rocket rhetoric. "Technicians make me laugh," he said, "when they argue over the question of whether five or maybe six rockets armed with thermonuclear warheads might be needed to demolish Great Britain. We have at least twelve already pointed at that target." And then, looking at his guest, Khrushchev remarked that Italy, with its allied missile bases, could expect its share. "This is not a threat," he added with a straight face, "just a warning...
...French army tied up in Algeria, the thought of even a limited-war tactic such as driving an armored column through to a blockaded Berlin frightens the French, who are only 150 miles from Russian armies in East Germany. "To deliberately create such an international crisis in the thermonuclear age is not merely frivolous but criminal." French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville told an applauding National Assembly last week. "There are other ways of making a serious approach to serious problems. As for France, we have never refused to negotiate...
...Written by Novice Playwright Eric Rudd and built around a 1970 summit conference, The Interpreter was as uneven as the Manhattan skyline. But its central, climactic scenes, played by a cast that includes Richard (Advise and Consent) Kiley, were alive with theatrical tension, swaying giddily on the brink of thermonuclear...