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President Kennedy Approves Nuclear Explosion for Peaceful Use
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State Department Notes “Serious Development” in Berlin
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![Kennedy to Receive Advice on Broadcasts from TV Producer Fred Coe](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_e525b51125fa420e999bf67381f52de1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_e525b51125fa420e999bf67381f52de1~mv2.webp)
Kennedy to Receive Advice on Broadcasts from TV Producer Fred Coe
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![Eisenhower Calls Peace Corps “Juvenile Experiment”](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_b494d5f8acee43de8d317883fb1aeb69~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_b494d5f8acee43de8d317883fb1aeb69~mv2.webp)
Eisenhower Calls Peace Corps “Juvenile Experiment”
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![Rockefeller: Kennedy Not “Unbeatable” in 1964](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_eaf08579bd174459a5ecc4754f077277~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_eaf08579bd174459a5ecc4754f077277~mv2.webp)
Rockefeller: Kennedy Not “Unbeatable” in 1964
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![🚨Soviets Detonate Most Powerful Nuclear Explosion in History](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_de39479c5ed54021bb0debc6657885e4~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_de39479c5ed54021bb0debc6657885e4~mv2.webp)
🚨Soviets Detonate Most Powerful Nuclear Explosion in History
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Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts
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![President Kennedy Most Voracious Reader Since Theodore Roosevelt](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_c57dc1f2d0c745b69a06aee74a08b93b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_c57dc1f2d0c745b69a06aee74a08b93b~mv2.webp)
President Kennedy Most Voracious Reader Since Theodore Roosevelt
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President Kennedy Gives Up Short Cigars
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![U.S. Soldiers with Fixed Bayonets Escort Diplomat into East Berlin](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_7a0c5dec57bd438ebebcfa34f7929a69~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_259,h_194,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_7a0c5dec57bd438ebebcfa34f7929a69~mv2.webp)
U.S. Soldiers with Fixed Bayonets Escort Diplomat into East Berlin
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![Kennedy to Witness Amphibious Exercises in San Diego](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_b70b577fb2b64829adeec455e5cf7713~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_b70b577fb2b64829adeec455e5cf7713~mv2.webp)
Kennedy to Witness Amphibious Exercises in San Diego
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![Kennedy Spokesman: Anyone Who Attacks U.S. Will Be Destroyed](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_3652744ee80c45a29e3471c8d53abc21~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_3652744ee80c45a29e3471c8d53abc21~mv2.webp)
Kennedy Spokesman: Anyone Who Attacks U.S. Will Be Destroyed
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![President Kennedy on New Exercise Regimen](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_8dd1be3c31844cfeb06ed721313f1150~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_8dd1be3c31844cfeb06ed721313f1150~mv2.webp)
President Kennedy on New Exercise Regimen
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East German Communists Reward Children for Informing
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Eisenhower: West Embraces Spiritual Values that Communists Deny
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Highlights of Khrushchev Speech in Moscow
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U.S. to Soviets: Don’t Explode 50-Megaton Weapon
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![Eisenhower Talks Fallout Shelters, Nuclear War](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25c687_e9fceaa658694efea8dffe7748286500~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/25c687_e9fceaa658694efea8dffe7748286500~mv2.webp)
Eisenhower Talks Fallout Shelters, Nuclear War
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Khrushchev Addresses 22nd Congress of Soviet Communist Party