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...December 1960. the U.S. first proposed to help NATO develop its own nuclear strike force. But Europe made no attempt to devise a plan. Last week, as they studied the Nassau accord between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan. Europeans saw emerging the first outlines of the nuclear NATO that the U.S. wants and will support...
Back from Nassau, the Prime Minister beamed that Britain now had a weapon that "will last a generation. The terms are very good." Many other Britons were not so sure. Though the government will shoulder none of the $800 million development cost of Polaris, it has already poured $28 million into Skybolt and will have to spend perhaps $1billion more for a fleet of missile-packing submarines. At best, the British will not be able to design, build and prove its nuclear fleet before 1970, three years after Britain's bomber force has presumably become obsolete...
...Macmillan cherished any idea that Kennedy would relent on Skybolt. that hope was foredoomed. Kennedy had been convinced by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that Skybolt was not worth the money or effort. The U.S. team at Nassau therefore tried to downplay Skybolt's significance to the conference...
...have no doubt," he said, "that we shall find our way through our difficulties in the spirit of agreement we have always had with the American people." But in the background was a grim awareness that his political survival might depend on bringing some sort of trophy back from Nassau...
Macmillan got to Nassau first, was waiting at the airport to greet Kennedy when the President arrived. During the airport ceremonies, the Nassau police band struck up an old English song. Early One Morning, the words of which...