Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just last week Russia's Nikita Khrushchev told some visiting Japanese that the Soviet Union has perfected a sensational new weapon "that is a means of the destruction and extermination of humanity...
What was the weapon? Was it what famed U.S. Physicist Ralph Lapp calls a "gigaton" bomb-a nuclear weapon packing the power of a billion tons of TNT that could be detonated 100 miles off the U.S.'s coastline and still set off a 50-ft. tidal wave that would sweep across much of the entire North American continent? Was it a cobalt bomb that would send a deadly cloud sweeping forever about the earth? A "death ray" or a germ bomb? Or even an empty boast? Two days later Nikita Khrushchev said it wasn't nuclear...
...displayed by Miller. But that should not have surprised anyone who has studied Johnson's record and knows that his championship of civil rights is of relatively recent vintage. During his first ten years in Congress, he voted four times against doing away with the poll tax, a weapon long used to keep Southern Negroes from voting...
...Conservatives' main line of attack focuses on Labor's pledge to do away with Britain's independent nuclear force, and concentrate spending on conventional weapons. Wilson says nuclear defense can better be left to the U.S., where in fact it rests anyway. Sir Alec insists that "unilateral disarmament by Britain would simply put us out of business in the highest council in the world." Thus far there have been few signs that the electorate is very excited about this issue. But in a nation with so strong a tradition of tenacious independence, the question of some control...
...Democratic Party. If it tries to work in the Democratic Party, it may have to realize that a compromise is not necessarily based on betrayal, cowardice, and ignorance, that it is often a part of the process of two strong groups vying for power. Without using the weapon of compromise, the MFDP may remain powerless