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...their skills and abilities, their industries, and above all their devotion to freedom into the neutral camp. Laying aside the moral wretchedness and the short-sightedness of such a course, it is still fool-hardy: for, while increasing the drain on America's men and money, it would not deter the China trade in the slightest...
...convinced that the hounding of career people by individual Congressmen is very, very wrong. I don't mind holding people responsible for failure, but not for judgement. It is enough now to make a public insinuation to discredit a man in the public eye and deter him from doing his work. Career services should not be a football of politics," he insists...
Should the U.S. build up an elaborate and expensive system of defense against atomic-thermonuclear attack, or can it rely on retaliatory striking power to deter attack? Last week two of the nation's most respected atomic scientists argued that deterrent power is necessary but not sufficient...
Both to help deter aggression and to help avert defeat, Seitz calls for "a defensive net." But he warns that the nation must also be ready to strike with "the most fearsome of our weapons." In discussing the morality of employing atomic or thermonuclear weapons, Seitz indulges in none of the hand-wringing that scientists often display in the pages of the Bulletin. It would be immoral, he says, "not to restrain Soviet aggression by any means which will be effective...
...know how grievous American casualties in Korea have been; they could have been less grievous if General MacArthur had not raced north to the Yalu frontier and provoked the Chinese into crossing it. This was, in our view, the point at which the concept of the police action to deter aggression lost its validity...