Talk:Kitchen Debate

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The phrase about the "obvious shortfalls of the American military" or however that reads is POV and needs a cleanup.

About "machine that put food into the mouth and pushes it down"
The original text is :

Khrushchev: "Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? Many things you've shown us are interesting but they are not needed in life. They have no useful purpose. They are merely gadgets. We have a saying, if you have bedbugs you have to catch one and pour boiling water into the ear."

the statment in the article about the "machine that put food into the mouth and pushes it down" is misleading...

now corrected to "satirically asked if". --Hkchan123 08:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I am either having a hard time finding the complete text of the "debate" or Nixon did not reference "...lawnmowers, supermarkets stocked full of groceries, Cadillac convertibles, makeup colors, lipstick, spike-heeled shoes, hi-fi sets, cake mixes, TV dinners, and Pepsi-Cola." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.139.209 (talk) 17:53, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Balance
Can anyone find the Soviet opinion of the debate? So many of the Soviet Union articles only talk about American thoughts on the matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.128.73 (talk) 20:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Quite. Four years on, I've tagged the article as needing to be more balanced in this regard. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:50, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

An External link doesn't work
"A more complete version" of the kitchen debate text is said to be on a turnerlearning site, but the link has not been working for several months. I cannot find other webpage that contain full text of this debate, but if there's somebody who knows one, please fix it. Shaind (talk) 16:39, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Radiation
I blanked this section for a consensus. I'm not sure how we could word it, but I believe it would be warranted to mention how grossly improbable this irradiation story is. Ionizing radiation cannot be turned on or off for the purposes of detection unless it is an X-ray (which would require a bulky power supply that couldn't be easily concealed) or a radioisotope in a shielded container with a moveable aperture perhaps. An atomic battery (in the attic!) was suggested as a source. At the time, those contained gamma emitting isotopes which could be detected by the dosimeter, however they wouldn't have that aperture and the distribution of the radiation also makes that sound implausible. The atomic battery story was even doubted by Golden it says. It sounds like the dosimeters were a quartz fiber type, which only detected gamma and X-ray at the time. I don't know if this was a cold war psyop, or some sort of malfunction of the dosimeters due to a static field perhaps. — THORNFIELD HALL (Talk) 09:06, 26 September 2023 (UTC)