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Mandelbaum portrays his work as "the story of the evolution of the best of all possible nuclear worlds...." Mandelbaum says nuclear strategy to 961 evolved through a calm reasoned discussion by scientists, strategists, and even dispassionate top-echelon government personnel. And when Mandelbaum's United States faces nuclear challenges, it rises as a monolithic community combining unanimity on strategic questions with general agreement on foreign policy goals...
HAROLD BROWN did not say anything of importance in his speech last Monday night, nor did anyone expect him to. His SALT talk resembled more than anything else a hastily prepared--and poorly edited--press release. When high government officials visit Harvard, they huddle with "the experts," the upper echelon of Harvard that masquerades as a government consulting firm. (Or is it the other way around?) For appearance's sake, they crank out a perfunctory speech for "the University community." Yet 700 students show up to hear it. It's The Harvard Experience, students playing their role, with Brown going...
...inaccuracies. For example, Lamont scorns a professor at Brown who taught students about espionage but "never asked (the students) to consider the morality of it all." That professor is Lyman Kirkpatrick, former executive director of the CIA and perhaps the most moral man ever to serve in a high echelon there. Moral considerations were central to the course, and moral discussions were so long and so frequent that someone half-jokingly suggested the course be offered in the Philosophy Department. Welcome to journalism, fella...
...inaccuracies. For example. Lamont scorns a professor at Brown who taught students about espionage but "never asked (the students) to consider the morality of it all." That professor is Lyman Kirkpatrick, former executive director of the CIA and perhaps the most moral man ever to serve in a high echelon there. Moral considerations were central to the course, and moral discussions were so long and so frequent that someone half-jokingly suggested that the course be offered in the Philosophy Department. Welcome to journalism, fella...
...leaders there either die on the job like Lenin and Stalin, or are ousted and relegated, like Georgi Malenkov, to diplomatic exile, or, like Nikita Khrushchev, to virtual house arrest and the ignominy of being an unperson. Since Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964, only two higher-echelon Soviet leaders have retired because of age: Anastas Mikoyan and Nikolai Shvernik. Numerous others-including the dynamic opportunist Alexander Shelepin, the Ukrainian strongman Pyotr Shelest and the moderate reformer Gennady Voronov-have been expelled from the Politburo and denounced for political sins. If there were more precedent for honorable retirement, Leonid Brezhnev...