Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his erratic track record on Vietnam, McNamara probably did more to illuminate publicly the complex strategic problems of the nuclear age than any American official since 1945. He demonstrated with compelling logic and eloquence the need for a strong "second-strike" nuclear capability--and noted, with accuracy, the need for forces to fight non-nuclear wars once it was clear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. could not longer use nuclear weapons against each other without risking mutual destruction...
...Similar logic, according to Adam Yarmolinsky '43, his former top aide, McNamara recently backed the development of a "thin" anti-ballistic missile system to protect the Chinese,--who lacking a "second strike" or "comeback" nuclear capability, are more likely than America or Russia to use nuclear weapons rashly...
...only the giant moth of Russian nationalistic aggression-cunningly Stalinist. This contention is substantiated by a report in your NATION section. The identical "liberalized" Soviets who now espouse Libermanism and plan to triple their output of autos have secretly developed the Fractional Orbital Bombing System designed to thwart U.S. nuclear defenses. We cannot afford to fall into a false complacency when dealing with the Soviets. They have not yet proven any sincere desire to coexist...
...Senator plans to give the money away, though he will not say to whom; his publishers are quite confident of recouping theirs, and then some. Even though the book, with chapters on youth, the Negro, Latin America, nuclear arms and China as well as Viet Nam, is little more than a rechauffé of old speeches, touched up by the Senator and Aides Adam Walinsky and Peter Edelman, the mere fact that it bears Bobby Kennedy's name is bound to sell copies during the coming year. According to Bobby's aides, the book's release...
Advance of theoretic knowledge in the field of nuclear physics was one of the primary reasons for victory, they said. If somehow we had ignored doing basic research in that field we would have been in deep trouble. And the term "general knowledge" was loosely used. It became very clear that out security--militarily and politically--was tied up in education. One way to keep the level of education and general knowledge high was to subsidize pure research...