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Last week the world got its best glimpse yet of the size and condition of the U.S.'s nuclear nest egg. It came when Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara testified on behalf of the recently signed nuclear test ban treaty before the Senate Foreign Relations, Senate Armed Forces and Joint Atomic Energy Committees...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--The meaning of "euphoria" is not all that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has had to explain to Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the other senators hearing testimony on the partial test ban treaty...
...Soviet ace-in-the-hole. Since the Russians have made fewer subterranean tests than the United States, they would be able to catch up in that category while this country was forbidden from atmospheric testing of hydrogen behemoths comparable to the ones the Soviets already have. Secretary McNamara testified we did not need the big bombs, but if we ever did, we could build them without testing them and still be confident they would work...
...armaments are concerned, the protests from West Germans that they were about to be left in the lurch by the U.S. hardly came with good grace. Only a few days earlier, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, during a whirlwind tour of West German military installations, had signed agreements that bind the U.S. militarily to West Germany more closely than to almost any other nation. Items...
Hopefully McGovern's speech will encourage a detailed and critical review of the proposed defense budget. If Defense Secretary McNamara's statements about the super-abundance of nuclear weapons possessed by this country are correct, the Defense department will have to present some highly compelling arguments for additional bomb purchases. McGovern approached his subject with a rich storehouse of knowledge, and his remarks displayed a careful study of the present military and economic structure of the United States. His conclusions cannot be easily dismissed...