Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this war I promise I'll quit college and enlist, just like my father did in 1941. But I'll be damned if I'll support Johnson with everything I have, including my life, if he won't support me with everything he has, including nuclear weapons...
...McNamara did indeed go a long way toward solving the puzzle of the Pentagon. Most notable were his application of sophisticated managerial techniques to the department's often chaotic budgetary and systems analysis practices, his firm assertion of civilian control, and his emphasis on conventional as well as nuclear forces. On the debit side were his reluctance to concede error and his inability to get along with Congress. "There is a way for a man to say no without offending, and there is a way for a man to say yes without offending," said...
...NUCLEAR SHIPS. McNamara adopted a go-slow approach, for which he was upbraided last week by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. The Committee urged the allocation of funds for a new submarine reactor proposed by Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover and the building of more nuclear surface ships...
...missiles were less vulnerable and more efficient. Clifford has said that "my inclination, which is a visceral one, is to say categorically yes" to developing a new bomber. The fact that the Strategic Air Command has now canceled B-52 airborne alert flights-simulated runs on Communist targets, with nuclear bombs aboard-in the wake of the Greenland crash in which four hydrogen bombs were lost, could, however, bring the usefulness of a new manned bomber into question...
...second is that through gradual escalation the administration's policy gets us into World War III. If in 1970 China achieves nuclear parity, plus a delivery capacity, then there is a real risk of World...