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Among the techniques: >A nuclear bomb could be loaded on a submarine or barge and planted on the ocean bottom near the coast of a target country. Exploded under two miles of water (at the aggressor's will and from great distance), a 20,000-megaton bomb would stir up a wave whose crest would still be 100 feet high after it had traveled 200 miles. It would wash most coastlines bare and ride far inland...
...must reduce the weight of nuclear warheads. Such a development of lighter weapons promises the mobility of our missiles so vital to the survival of our retaliatory power after a first strike by an aggressor. Weapons light enough to be moved about on trucks and small, swift submarines could virtually assure our decisive deterrent power...
...dramatically reduced, the U.S. could almost surely arise from the rubble, fight back, survive, put together a society again and, ultimately, prosper once more. That ability in itself might well serve as a deterrent second only to the nation's retaliatory military might in preventing an aggressor from launching his attack. It is in that realization that the U.S. Government, after years of paying lip service to civil defense, has begun to move...
...Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo central government and thus head off a possible civil war. As the fighting raged on, it carried the United Nations into the new, uncomfortable-and, to some critics, indefensible-position of active aggressor on a large scale...
Stand or Surrender. A man who knows the uses of power gave a stern lecture to the West last week. "Western appeasement," warned France's Charles de Gaulle, "can only divide the West as it faces ambitious imperialism. Withdrawal makes the aggressor more excited, makes him redouble his pressure. The Western powers can best serve peace by standing firm...