Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson had a dousing notion of his own. Cruising off San Diego aboard the nuclear carrier U.S.S. Enterprise at week's end, he proposed an oceanic end to the war. Addressing Hanoi-as well as the voters at home-he declared: "You force us to fight, but you have only to say the word for our quarrel to be buried beneath the waves." The President suggested that "a neutral ship on a neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any" for the U.S. and North Viet Nam to begin negotiations-"so long...
...domination of the market by one buyer--the government--adds to the uncertainty. Changes in national defense policy (such as the Eisenhower emphasis on nuclear, rather than conventional weapons) create havoc in the market...
...indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of millions of innocent persons through total nuclear war could clearly be wrong. In my mind, even resolving to wage total war under some set of conditions poses moral problems. Although I admit numerous doubts, I feel it may even be wrong to participate actively in the creation of improved instruments for waging total war. And my work on this volume certainly constituted participation, however indirect, in the creation of such instruments...
...resolution declared that the massive American military presence in Viet Nam was unjustifiable. "Amid the gritty specifics, the crunch of political forces," comments Ramsey, "there are two sides to this and to most world questions to which Christians can with equal sincerity adhere." Another resolution stated without amplification that nuclear war "is against God's will"-ignoring the fact that "the morality of deterrence depends upon it not being wholly immoral for a government ever to use an atomic weapon...
...since by the 1990s as many as 50 countries may belong to the nuclear club, there is also a real possibility of atomic war-directed, most probably, by one small, adventurous state against another of the same kind: "While the balance of terror is a great deterrent to conservative powers, to a reckless power the balance of terror may look like an opportunity or shield behind which it can get away with a good deal." In the event of nuclear war between two major powers-not necessarily involving the U.S. or Russia-the world is likely to survive...