Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advantage of Minuteman is that its three engines use solid fuel. Thus, while the already deployed, liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan* take 15 minutes to fire, Minuteman can blast out of its hole within 32 seconds of the trigger command -the first truly pushbutton transoceanic weapon. The use of a solid propellant also eliminates the complex plumbing and finicky maintenance problems of the earlier missiles. Minutemen can be turned out faster than their silos can be emplaced. Once deployed, they require no major maintenance for three years. At a systems cost of $3,400,000 per missile, Minuteman costs...
...allies, pushed stubbornly ahead with his force de frappe, a nuclear deterrent that had neither present logic nor present value in Western defense planning save as the core of an independent European deterrent-and De Gaulle had yet to suggest that he would welcome other fingers on the trigger...
...porch of the cabin where he kept his books and his shotgun. Would he like a lift to the main house? "No," said Stanley Walker. "You come back a little later." When he was alone, he put the muzzle of the shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger...
...step up their ordering of tools when they plan to boost output in the coming months. Toolmakers reported that orders were coming in from companies in every branch of business. "While the increase isn't startlingly high," says a top Administration economist, "purchases of machinery can be the trigger to a new advance in capital spending." If so, it would mean that the Kennedy Administration's grant of tax credits for plant modernization and speeded-up depreciation schedules finally may be paying some much-needed dividends for the economy...
...over the country, if necessary, rather than risk annihilation of the human race. As founder of Britain's "better Red than dead" Campaign for 'Nuclear Disarmament and later of an even more militant group called the Committee of 100. Russell denounces the U.S. as a nation of trigger-happy imperialists, but had only soft words for Russia's recent rocket rattling. Despite, or because of, the fact that two of his four wives have been Americans. Russell has conducted a long love-hate affair with the U.S.; he is still bitter about his court-ordered dismissal from...