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...addition, some members of the Department felt that needless complications, details, and special provisions render the plan too elaborate...
...ordering locations of structures" does not solve the problem because "the complexity of a city ultimately breaks through," to render such plans obsoiete, he pointed...
...difficult if he succeeds," Aron notes, because "then he will no longer be necessary." Aron's view of the Algerian dilemma has all along been that it is an extraordinary crisis that could perhaps only be handled effectively by a hero on horseback, but that its solution might then render the leader superfluous...
There are two practicable ways to prevent such a disadvantageous situation from occurring. We could undertake a vast civil defense program to reduce probable American casualties to an estimated ten million and thus render at least credible our threat of massive retaliation to an invasion of Europe... Or, because of the deficiencies I mentioned earlier of a shelter system, we can increase vastly the fire power and mobility of our conventional and tactical nuclear forces in Europe. Though I would advocate the latter approach, a civil defense program, accompanied by constant statements of our belief in its considerable effectiveness...
...short, Kennedy or Nixon? is a brilliant piece of campaign propaganda. But sloppy and blindly partisan reasoning render it almost useless as a handbook for the discriminating undecided voter upon whom, if the pundits are right, the election depends...