Word: polarisation
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With brilliant timing and tactics, Richard Nixon had used the meeting with Rockefeller to position himself on the side of new departures for the 19605, broadening his potential appeal to independent voters, without losing the political value of identification with the Eisenhower Administration record?a record that got a considerable...
Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched...
Some 40 ft. below the roiling water, a grinning redhead, wearing the two stars of a rear admiral, thrust his way through the crowded companionway of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine George Washington and clapped her skipper, Commander James Osborn, on the back. Then, just to prove it was all...
Devastating Deterrent. In those two 15-minute flights, Polaris gave firm promise that the U.S. is ready to move into a new age of security and deterrence with a revolutionary weapons system. The nuclear subs that are its launching platforms can roam the world's oceans at will, difficult...
Polaris qualifies as the ideal deterrent: an all but invulnerable striking force capable of surviving a sneak attack-a mobile, dispersible, devastating guarantee of destruction to any enemy tempted to touch off an all-out assault. With Polaris submarines at sea, no enemy can possibly figure on knocking out U.S...