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...usual, when blustering his worst, as he did last week, Nikita Khrushchev also exhibited his peace-loving side. This time it was a 5,600-word Soviet plan for "complete and generaldisarmament," sent to all 82 members of the U.N. The new plan, Nikita let it be known, was one that he had intended to present in Paris had Dwight Eisenhower not "wrecked the summit." He would hardly have made much headway with it there...
...insisting that the 12-to-18-month first stage of disarmament must include the abolition of all foreign bases as well as of nuclear means of delivery, Nikita's scheme would give Russia, with its huge conventional forces, crushing military superiority over the U.S. By subjecting the proposed international police force to the U.N. Security Council, the Soviets would also subject its operations to their veto. And after studying the inspection proposals, one U.S. disarmament expert commented: "The Russians would let you watch them destroy what they would say was 50% of their air force, but you would have...
With his customary cynicism, Nikita Khrushchev had long since concluded that disarmament is a field in which victory goes not to the side that acts but to the side that most loudly professes its willingness to act. But, as Russians so often have, he was grievously underestimating the intelligence and resolution of his opponents. Though Western officials politely agreed to study the plan, there was no sign that any of them-including subtle, skeptical Charles de Gaulle-failed to see through Nikita's transparent maneuver...
...brand new rocket force. A member of a favored branch (Stalin once called artillery "the God of war"), Nedelin became adept in World War II at Stalin's vaunted "artillery offensives," massing 300 pieces or more for each kilometer of front. His rise to favor with Nikita apparently began when both men were serving in the Ukraine during...
...Khrushchev really intend to give a man who once described himself as "a gunner, that's all" the authority to make the decision that could touch off nuclear war? The consensus of the West: Nikita was trading on U.S. cancellation of the U-2 flights to run a bluff on which he reckoned he would never have to put up or shut...