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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...news was considered urgent enough to summon members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee to Washington for an urgent unscheduled meeting. CIA Director Allen Dulles hastily arranged a talk with President-elect John Kennedy. Around it all was an aura of deep secrecy. Was it someone's first successful Abomb? Was it a nuclear pile gone critical? Those in the know would say only that there has been an "atomic development" by an "nth power...
...First speculation was that the nth power was Red China, which has recently been boasting that it would have its own atom bomb in a matter of months. But knowledgeable sources in Washington declared that the nation was neither of the Communist nor the NATO bloc...
...urgency of fear that forged NATO's first army has long vanished; so has the invulnerability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent that so long buttressed NATO's troops from afar...
Nuclear NATO. Only five years ago, the new German Bundeswehr accepted its first recruits. Today the Bundeswehr has some 280,000 men, and by the end of next year will be at a planned strength of 340,000. Eleven of the army's projected twelve divisions have been activated, and the twelfth will be next month. Seven have already been committed to NATO, and the rest will be next year...
...frequent visitor was a pale, mustached man named Adolf Hitler. One day when Butcher Strauss caught his son-aged five-handing out pamphlets that some brown shirt had given him, he gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. "That," says Franz Josef Strauss, "was my first experience in politics...