Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Burns told the audience that he is concerned mainly with two facets of the nuclear problem: the vertical increase of nuclear armaments being built by the major nuclear powers and the horizontal addition of near-nuclear countries who now have the capabilities to build a nuclear weapon and whose entry into the nuclear family could cause wholesale thermonuclear escalation...
Burns stated that there are four countries now capable of producing a nuclear weapon: India, Japan, Israel, and West Germany. He said that these countries are looking forward to the results of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) which will be held April 16 between the United States and Russia before making their decisions as to whether each will go ahead in its nuclear program...
Burns pointed out that recent failures of the U. S. and U. S. S. R. to keep promises concerning test-bans and disarmament, notably the US. continuation of underground tests following the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, will cause skepticism concerning the efficacy of the talks...
...saying, "I have no faith whatsoever in the SALT talks, no faith whatsoever in disarmament negotiations." He described the ABM as a system designed "as a first-strike capability to get China and have enough left over to save one or two U. S. cities from China's last nuclear gasp...
More recent and contemporary figures include Perry Como, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Jerry Vale, Liza Minelli, and Frank Sinatra. The atomic bomb was in part the work of Enrico Fermi who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in America and who was present at the Los Alamos testing grounds. Fermi received the coveted Nobel Prize for Physics...