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...force de frappe to concern himself with putting nuclear weapons in the hands of others. In fact, the U.S. itself now was less than enthusiastic about the idea; among many Washington officials, there is a nagging doubt as to the wisdom of putting 15 fingers on the trigger of the Bomb...
...miles to the U.S. The Russians had made great gains in putting a bigger punch into a smaller package (weight-yield ratio), thus could increase either the range or power of existing weapons systems. They had approached perfection in a clean bomb. (In some of their blasts, the fission trigger-which is the main source of a bomb's radioactivity-formed only 2% of the explosive yield.) They were able to fire warheads that survived the punishment of re-entry into the atmosphere, something the U.S. had not even tried. Most significant, their high-altitude tests indicated work...
...convictions were shaped in a career that is typical of yesterday's Africa. He was born in 1907 in a seedy flophouse in Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, run by his parents. Michael and Leah Welensky. A huge, hard-drinking Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland. Michael Welensky cut off his trigger finger to avoid conscription by the Czar's army, sought his fortune as a fur trader in the U.S. before settling in Salisbury after the diamond rush. Son Roy (his real first name is Raphael) quit school at 14; after a series of odd jobs ranging from baker...
...could intervene directly. Gardner said this would have resulted in a "Spanish Civil War" situation in which the confrontation of the major powers might trigger a world...
...find. Though President Rafael Donnelly's seven-man Council of State has been installed to guide the country toward democracy, it operates under a shaky truce with the still powerful military that remains from Trujillo's time. In plain language the council is afraid to anger the trigger-happy officers by searching out the killers in their ranks. Says an official of the council: "Lots of military men are implicated. You know where we would end up if we pressed too hard...