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When the Vicinamese were demolishing French troops during the siege of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Secretary of State John Paster Dulles offered three nuclear bombs to the French government. The threat was repeated move directly in 1968, when the U.S. considered nuclear attack an a means of relieving the...
The concept of arms control evolved when a growing Soviet nuclear arsenal suddenly threw into doubt the comfortable premises of the decade after World War II. It had been complacently assumed that by means of the "balance of terror," technology supplied a shortcut to security. Even after we had lost...
In the beginning, their performances were tragically unprofessional. OSS networks in Istanbul and Rome were penetrated by German agents. An anti-Nazi official who was slipping papers to Allen Dulles, Donovan's man in Switzerland, was mistakenly suspected of being a German double agent. Although Winston Churchill was a...
But Shultz also got a taste of some new organizational constraints he may encounter. He told four American journalists, who flew across the Atlantic with him, that he would be available for a few questions when the supersonic jet landed. These arrangements were countermanded at Dulles International Airport by a...
The conclusion to Bitter Fruit, then, remains to be written Like the result of a scary time warp, the Reagan Administration is taking up right where Allen Dulles and his CIA left off. As Schlesinger and Kinzer so effectively argue, this type of policy has no victors--only victims. Eventually...