Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he first joined the Kennedy Administration in 1961, his attitudes were not generally popular in Washington. Yet he remained constant to his ideal. As Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, as the Pentagon's chief representative on the nuclear test-ban team to Moscow, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, he always sought the proportioned response--the wide range of political alternatives to military pressure, where possible. He exerted beneficial and imaginative influence over Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arms Control. He continued his interest in disarmament while he was the Defense Department's General Counsel and in his last post as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs. McNaughton was the chief Pentagon staff man on the team that negotiated the nuclear test-ban treaty in Moscow...
...devoid of Islamic hobbles, one that stopped barefoot wretches from sleeping in the Cairo streets and moved them into high-rise apartments. Here was a leader who asserted that the Koran could be made compatible with "Arab socialism," who emancipated women, started birth control, planned the Aswan Dam, produced nuclear energy, renounced Egypt's claim to the Sudan, and even sought a Palestine settlement. Yet even Nasser could not resist the temptation of turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge on Israel. Russia...
Khrushchev takes credit for preserving world peace by refusing to supply Red China with nuclear armaments, and quotes from a 1959 conversation with Mao Tse-tung to demonstrate Chinese bellicosity. "Comrade Khrushchev," Mao said, "you have only to provoke the Americans to military action and I will give you as many people as you wish-100 divisions, 200 divisions, 1,000." Khrushchev goes on to tell how he explained to Mao that "with contemporary techniques, his divisions meant nothing, because one or two rockets would be enough to turn all the divisions into dust." Mao disagreed, Khrushchev reports, "obviously regarding...
...Gaulle's advice. The Soviets scorned his appeal for a four-power conference on the Middle East. The U.S. spurned his counsels on Viet Nam. And then Red China unexpectedly exploded an H-bomb, ample proof that it had moved itself far in front of France in the nuclear sweepstakes...