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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...
Although Bundy said he was unsure of the merit of Bush's recent nomination of John G. Tower for secretary of defense, he added that he thinks the choice of Brent Scowcroft as assistant to the president for national security affairs was a good one. Scowcroft now holds the same post Bundy did under President John F. Kennedy...
...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...
...issues, most of Bundy's book addresses the high-level decisions that led to the present global nuclear situation. His explanations are thorough and readily accessable to the uninformed reader. From Roosevelt and Truman's earliest decisions to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bundy challenges old and recent theories answering the why and how of these events...
Harvard students help recent immigrants from Latin America and Southeast Asia to gain a working knowledge of English, enough to get skilled employment...