Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner or later have to take the risk of war with China-care ful and calculated but still a risk. The U.S. held on to West Berlin and ejected Soviet missiles from Cuba only by a calculated risk of war with the Soviet Union. Short of an all-out nuclear holocaust, which would level American cities, China after all stands to lose much more from a war than the U.S. So long as the U.S. creates the impression that it will do anything in Southeast Asia short of facing the real enemy-either militarily or diplomatically-China can simply...
...relevance of that vision was summed up by Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the opening session. "John XXIII presented to the world a public philosophy for a nuclear era," said Humphrey. "It represents not a Utopian blueprint for world peace, presupposing a sudden change in the nature of man. Rather, it represents a call to leaders of nations, presupposing only a gradual change in human institutions. It is not confined to elaborating the abstract virtues of peace, but looks to the building of a world community governed by institutions capable of preserving peace. We honor Pope John XXIII on this...
...urge war on North Vietnam maintain that this is the only way to salvage the military strategy that has failed up to now. This argument, which has found increasing acceptance in Washington, states that it is better to fight now, forcing China into a new Korea while her nuclear deterrent is still ineffective, than ten years from now, when China controls most of Southeast Asia and has a delivery system for her nuclear weapons. A new Korea would also give the United States an excuse to destroy the facilities which are developing China's deterrent...
...only would a war policy insure for Vietnamese and Americans a far bloodier struggle than the one in which they are now engaged, but a new drawn-out Korea would threaten the whole with nuclear holocaust. At home Americans would have to shelve indefinitely the issues of poverty, unemployment, and civil rights, in order to divert their creative energies to the destructiveness...
Breathing, too, is growing steadily more perilous. Said Johnson: "This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale," by gas, coal and oil fumes as well as by nuclear fission. The 1966 budget under the Clean Air Act will be $24 million-almost double what it was when the law was enacted two years ago. Even so, the President feels that the act needs strengthening to permit the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare "to investigate potential air-pollution problems before pollution happens...