Eisenhower conceded to this mood in 1958 by sponsoring creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and passage of the National Defense Education Act, accelerating weapons programs, and deploying intermediate-range missiles in England, Italy, and Turkey.
Its most powerful explosion to date follows a test in January that prompted the U.N. Security Council to impose tightened sanctions that increased North Korea's isolation but failed to prevent it from accelerating weapons development.
He pointed to a 1999 report by the nation's top intelligence experts, done in response to the Cox panel, that concluded that China's theft of American secrets had "probably accelerated" its weapons development, though more "to inform their own program than to replicate U.S. weapons design".
It was shaped to be much slimmer than was usual for aircraft-dropped bombs and a cluster of booster rockets accelerated the weapon as it fell, so it struck the target with a velocity much greater than its free-fall, terminal velocity.
If mishandled, they could easily help an enemy accelerate its weapons development.
Iraq would string out these "discussions" while it accelerates its weapons development.
At the same time, the armed services are clamoring to accelerate major weapons programs that have been delayed by budget squeezes in the past.
Instead, Risen writes, the operation may have helped Iran to "accelerate its weapons development" by extracting important information from the blueprints and ignoring the flaws.
The regional and global threat represented by Pyongyang's rapidly accelerating nuclear weapons programme will be another theme of Trump's first address to the UN.
The Bush administration said today that North Korea appeared ready to agree to proposed multiparty talks to resolve the impasse over the North's refusal to dismantle its accelerating nuclear weapons program.
