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...hoping to shock the West into negotiations on Berlin and disarmament, negotiations in which the premier obviously felt he would be dealing from strength to Western weakness. In addition, Khrushchev was gambling that the neutrals would try to pressure the U.S. into concessions to avoid a thermonuclear holocaust...
...meantime. Russia would stand revealed to the world as the atomic aggressor. Thus, Kennedy's first public statement, issued Wednesday night at 9:50, declared that the Soviet Union's decision "presents a threat to the entire world by increasing the dangers of a thermonuclear holocaust.'' But the statement left Kennedy's own plans purposefully vague; it said merely that the Soviet move made it necessary for the U.S. to decide "what its own national interests require...
...afoot even as they awoke and dressed for work one morning last week. The radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué. First came the strident buildup: "The United States and its allies are fanning up the arms race . . . preparing a new world holocaust while the Soviet government strives for peace. The Soviet Union considers it its duty to take all necessary measures...'' Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided to start testing its nuclear weapons again...
Even as the delegates began to stream in, word reached Belgrade of Russia's announcement that it intended to resume nuclear testing. The news struck the neutrals like a slap in the face. Hardly united and agreed on anything except their common animus against a big-power thermonuclear holocaust that would endanger them all, the neutralists at first greeted the news with grim silence. Only India's Nehru stated bleakly: "I am against nuclear tests anywhere...
...Atomic Holocaust? Gilbert went on to become a tycoon. He bought a 600-acre estate outside New Haven, called it Paradise, and stocked it with fish, game and trophies from hunting expeditions. He insisted on punching the time clock each day as he reported for work with his 2,000 employees (he also punched a bag daily), often showed up in old, patched clothes. He kept up his interest in sports as a pole vaulting coach at Yale for many years (he authored the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on pole vaulting) and, ever the perfectionist, gave up golf after...