Allen Dulles: Television Interview on the Soviets’ Intentions

Glossary

• intercontinental ballistic missile the opposite of a guided missile, in that its course cannot be altered once it is fired; distinguished from shorter-range missiles in its capacity to travel more than 3,500 miles
• Kremlin technically, a medieval fortress in Moscow, around which government buildings grew, leading to the use of the term as a reference to the Russian or Soviet government as a whole
• opposite Formosa across the Taiwan Strait, a body of water that separates mainland China from Taiwan (formerly, Formosa)
• sixth five-year plan initiated by Stalin, one of several attempts to rapidly develop Soviet industry through centralized planning, coordination, and implementation; the sixth plan ran from 1956 to 1960
• Stalin Joseph Stalin (1879–1953), absolute dictator of the Soviet Union
• Yalu the river that forms the boundary between China and North Korea