Word: nuclear
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...interview Friday, McGeorge Bundy, a New York University history professor and former national security advisor under the Kennedy Administration, said President Bush looks "more like Eisenhower or Ford than Reagan or Nixon" in his nuclear policy and arms control negotiation...
Bundy, former dean of the faculty at Harvard, discussed his recent book, Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years, explaining that he "deliberately didn't address the particular choices" the upcoming administration would have to make. Bush's major problem in dealing with nuclear policy, Bundy said, would be to "address the absence of serious compromises between the president and the legislature...
Gore and other Democrats say Bush should secure deep cuts in strategic nuclear weapons and embark on an "unprecedented international effort to confront the global ecological crisis...
J.F.K.'s Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, emerges as the principal spokesman for the overarching theme of both the TV series and the book. That theme is that nuclear weapons are not really weapons at all; they are political instruments whose very existence deters their own use. Author Newhouse calls the quest for strategic advantage "the chimera of the nuclear...
...opening his presidency with a call to altruism, Bush turns away from the selfishness of the Reagan era -- and begins looking for a way out of his budget bind. -- An interview with the 41st President. -- Reagan's last day: Who gets the nuclear credit card? -- Dan Quayle goes to school. -- Tensions between blacks and immigrants underlie Miami's latest uprising...