Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger of nuclear war--long the implied ultimate threat of continued escalation in Vietnam--has taken on a chilling new air of plausibility this month...
...believes the Viet Cong offensive, and the unlimited character of our response to it, have limited the future options open to us in South Vietnam. He fears that we will face continued miltary setbacks until we either withdraw, or resort to nuclear weapons...
...terribly afraid, as some of our Vietnamese friends over there were afraid, that we'll resort to even the greater fire power that we have. We'll lay rubble to everything, including perhaps using nuclear weapons. It's in this context that people get very worried. They have no confidence at all in restraint on the part of the United States...
...could be driven out by a Viet Cong victory, and I'm not sure that America would ever face that without going to all-out nuclear war. The only other thing you can hope for is that somehow the present American government is brought down, and that a government be brought into power which will arrange for America's withdrawal...
...plastic housewares, and agreed to acquire, pending stockholder approval, Akron Equipment Co., a tire-mold manufacturer. So far so good. But Burns had also urged that Cities Service buy out Hugoton Production Co., a Kansas-based producer of natural gas, and a uranium mining and processing firm called United Nuclear Corp. Both deals fell through, partly, it seems evident, because the Cities Service powers, whether right or wrong, were leery about committing too much money too fast to external expansion. The policy-difference became so deep that, once again, John Burns...