Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world famous philosopher began the annual Herman F. Kahn lecture series last night with a speech on "Myth and History." Professor Brandon Homer devoted the major portion of his address to the renowned Homer-Smith theory of Underground Migration, propounding that mankind had, at one stage of pre-history, lived on the Earth's crust. Homer said that evidence supporting the theory exists in many branches of study, and offered an example of "linguistic evidence" by analyzing such phrases as "green plant" and "starry night," still common in primitive dialects...
...early bomb shelters, Homer theorized, were located in metros (sites of "underground" transportation). At some point in the second half of the twentieth century an extensive shelter construction program was initiated, which first revealed to man the obvious advantages of underground living. The West, in order to keep the Family (a group of people preventing others from living with them) intact enacted laws forbidding citizens to work or reside other than one mile from their shelters...
...enemy to strike while he has an edge in missiles, and thus eliminate U.S. nuclear forces with only a minimal risk of retaliation. At the very least the U.S. must strive for nuclear forces that can withstand a first blow-by dispersing and protecting its bombers, rushing missile bases underground, and mobilizing such missiles as Minuteman (on trains) and Polaris (in submarines). At best, all the U.S. can hope to achieve is a situation of "mutual invulnerability." And under mutual invulnerability the threat of all-out nuclear war-the threat that lay behind the longstanding U.S. strategy of "massive retaliation...
...Navy strategists insist that what is needed is a finite deterrent, a retaliatory force designed to prevent nuclear war, not to "win" it. Enough Polaris subs lurking beneath the sea ("enough" is estimated at 30), enough Minuteman missiles riding the country on railroad trains or at the ready in underground silos, enough intermediate-range missiles scattered across Europe, say finite-deterrent backers, will convince a potential enemy that even a successful surprise assault promises terrible and intolerable retaliation. Here the relationship is between the number of U.S. missiles and the number of important Communist targets. Somewhere between the two extremes...
...will provide its own off street parking and in addition will house on the ground level an off street loading area for MTA buses, connected underground with the rapid transit line, thus eliminating two major sources of congestion from the streets, namely the buses themselves and pedestrians transferring from one line to another...