Word: warheads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high council to study a whole new defense system: the Defense Planning Committee. They also set up the new seven-nation Nuclear Planning Group, of which West Germany is a key member. The group's mission will be to select targets, deploy NATO's 7,000 warhead nuclear force, and recommend when, if ever, to fire in anger. But the ownership of the weapons and final decision to fire remain with the U.S. The hope is that the new committee will satisfy the West German demand for full-fledged treatment in NATO, while at the same time retaining...
...considerably less powerful than the third Chinese A-bomb (130 kilotons) detonated last May. There was conflicting opinion among Western scientists as to whether or not the bomb had been reduced by its builders to the tiny, rugged component parts needed to carry a big bang in a small warhead. If the bomb was "miniaturized"-and it will be weeks before analysis of its fallout can reach any conclusion on that question -then China has accomplished a major advance in nuclear weaponry. The delivery system was the real mystery. Some skeptics suggested that Peking was stretching the truth...
...develop computerized RSA, or at least a combination of human analysts and computers, as quickly as possible. In the event of a nuclear war there would be little time for human analysts to leaf through a radar signature catalog in an effort to differentiate between an incoming ICBM warhead and its decoys. Only a computer could spot the authentic warhead radar signature quickly enough to order its interception and destruction by defending missiles...
...subsequent tests, the French developed a 60-kiloton Abomb, but it is so bulky that France's 40 or 50 force de frappe Mirage IV jet bombers are able to carry only one apiece. What the French hope to achieve in the new tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence. The French timetable calls for the missiles to be ready by 1969, followed by Polaris-type submarines in the early 1970s...
These virtues, in fact, served man well until the 20th century, until the arrow was transformed into a missile and the cudgel into an atomic warhead. All at once man had more aggression than he dared to use and less control than he needed...