Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Thomas S. Power, for seven years head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, has always been boldly outspoken on airpower and its advantages, and on other hotly debated questions of strategy. In 1959 he wrote a controversial book summing up his views on U.S. military policy in the nuclear age, but then-Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy ordered Power to lock it up on the ground that publication would be improper while Power was still on active duty. The manuscript stayed locked up under President Kennedy...
Eventually Conventional. Power is the only top-ranking U.S. commander to oppose publicly the 1963 partial nuclear test ban treaty. He terms disarmament patently unworkable, brands U.S. disarmament proposals at Geneva - such as mutual inspection of atomic sites - "fantastic and unrealistic." The U.S., he says, could better encourage peace by concentrating on remaining strong, instead is like someone trying to "dress and undress at the same time...
...just to humiliate the Moral Leader of the Free World, which devotes 50% of its national budget to arms. Your unparalled cruelty in depriving each one of your 700,000,000 people of $1 worth of groceries over a period of years in order to develop an aggressive nuclear weapon will not yield you the returns you expected since our Defense Department has an invincible defense arsenal capable of defensively disintegrating China and all its people hundreds of times over. Your empty propagandistic call for a world disarmament conference while you build your offensive bombs to destroy the peaceloving United...
Morgenthau praised Kennedy's contribution to the "attempt to create a viable foreign policy in the face of the threat nuclear destruction." He cited Kennedy's "tactical success". In the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and his "real though cited success in gaining a nuclear test of treaty...
...spring of 1963, to hear Novelist Gary tell it, was the time when all the bright and earnest college kids in Europe were high on Pope John XXIII and nuclear disarmament. But Lenny, the ski bum, is not bright and earnest. He is bright and cynical, a young American who sees himself as fallout from the population explosion. On the lam from living, he finds escape only in the purity of the Swiss snow fields, where he maintains himself all winter by giving ski lessons, and sometimes his fair body as well, to rich ladies...