Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power-brute power-is the basic weapon of Communism. When the cold war going gets really tough, the Communists shove aside all their books of theory, all their piously professed concern for mankind. They fall back on force and fear, as they did in beating down the East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted...
...tests needed? Different tests have different purposes. Some are aimed at improving existing nuclear weapons. Designers need to know accurately how much smaller a weapon can be made without loss of punch, how much of a scarce ingredient can be safely omitted, or whether the weapon can be changed in shape to fit another warhead. Most of the answers can be worked out in theory on complex computers, but the history of weapons is full of embarrassing surprises, and scientists can never be sure until the modified weapon has been exploded and its performance has been measured. New and radical...
...bigger bang; a decrease in weight of the current-strength warhead would allow an increase in the missile's range. The same effect would show up all along the line; a B-52 could carry twice as many improved 20-megaton bombs. The U.S. has many new weapons systems with nuclear warheads that have yet to be explosively tested. No ICBM, for instance, has carried a nuclear warhead out of the atmosphere and back again and demonstrated that after its high ride the warhead will still explode. No antimissile nuclear weapon has been tested in space against an incoming...
...legal weapon against airline hijackers, the Senate sent to the White House a bill that would classify the crime as piracy, make it punishable by death...
...megaton range (the equivalent of 100 million tons of TNT), made to fit rockets "similar to those used by Major Y. A. Gagarin and Major G. S. Titov for their unrivaled cosmic flights." In case somebody missed the point, Russia's army newspaper Red Star explained that nuclear weapons of such power could wipe out anyone anywhere: "No super-deep shelter can save them from an all-shattering blow from this weapon...