Word: nuclear
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Following the secrecy of the Reagan years, a policy of openness about national security affairs would "clear the air," Bundy said. Intense national government confidentiality about nuclear policy has always been a problem, Harvard's former dean added, noting that "things were better off before Reagan--but not very good...
McGEORGE Bundy--preeminent foreign policy scholar and former national security advisor--has written a long and complicated retrospective about the political choices behind the development and proliferation of the nuclear bomb...
...wake of recent U.S.-Soviet summits and Gorbachev's promises of military cutbacks, Bundy's book arrives right on time to provide the new Bush Administration and those concerned about current foreign policy decisions with a much needed perspective on past presidential decision-making and the possibility for future nuclear stability...
Bundy offers historical background, personal recollection and editorial commentary throughout his 617-page book that eventually combine to present an optimistic analysis for the future of global nuclear policy. Although Bundy has not written an autobiography here, one of Danger and Survival's most compelling characteristics is the author's first-person description of the international crisis in Cuba and Berlin during the Kennedy Administration when he was the president's special assistant for national security affairs...
...making process and the resolution of the Cuba and Berlin conflicts that leads Bundy to write, "Leaders on both sides have been sane, and they have also been watched by sane associates." Bundy is encouraged by the ability of world leaders to confront delicate situations which have held a nuclear threat and emerge from those dilemmas relatively unscathed. While he writes that "these examples ought to never by repeated," he adds that we can remain comforted by the fact that policymakers have so far had the personal ability and administrative support to avoid disaster...