Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nuclear weapons may not come at Khesanh. But unless the course of the war changes drastically there, the danger of nuclear war in Vietnam will no longer be remote...
...Battle of the Tet offensive does not come at Khesanh, or if the U.S. faces a crucial major battle in an area where the terrain doesn't prevent effective use of nukes, Pentagon officials have suggested they would recommend nuclear weapons as a last resort...
...three years the Americans have bombed the North, with total disregard for the political implications," a South Vietnamese general said last month. "The next step was shelling government-controlled villages to rout the Cong. The logical extension of this policy is to use nuclear weapons. What else can you do when the 2000-pound bombs don't stop the Communists...
...recommendation to bring in the nukes would have to be approved by President Johnson, and so far he has given no hint that he would approve. Johnson has reportedly assured Russia's Premier Kosygin that the United States won't use nuclear weapons, but the White House has been deliberately cryptic in publicly quelling the rumors that followed Wheeler's statement. When asked about nukes at a press conference, the President would only say that he "was not aware" of any Pentagon request for them...
...Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who begged the U.S. to "save the world from holocaust" by holding back on the nukes. China has taken a more disturbing step: a week after Wheeler's testimony, Chou En-lai promised to send some of China's new nuclear weapons to Hanoi if necessary...