Word: skybolts
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...Britain's custom of being beastly to one's friends and sporting to one's enemies. If we were ever to behave toward those whose purpose is to bury us the way we behave toward the NATO allies, the peace movement would be up in anguish crying that the skybolt was falling...
...demands parity with Britain in the sharing of nuclear secrets, what he really is saying is that it is dangerous for sovereign states to rely on the good will of other sovereign states for their existence; and Kennedy has just provided excellent proof of this in the case of Skybolt. But France is being told that doubts regarding American willingness to jeopardize Detroit for the sake of, say, West Berlin are tantamount to treason. And such doubts might, as Reston clearly meant to suggest, result in a repetition of the American withdrawals from Europe after the two World Wars. That...
...wishful to believe, even before Skybolt, that the Six would be willing to rely on someone else's generals in every situation. Khrushchev is simply too adept at presenting limited threats over limited objectives; he has got us halfway out of West Berlin already. So long as he avoids more obvious encroachments, such as the Cuba stunt, he will always be able to make a given challenge "not worth" a major response. Thus we are asking the Europeans to believe that Soviet armored troop carriers in West Berlin mean as much to us as the missiles in Cuba. And this...
These feelings are understandable, especially in the light of U.S. secrecy and vacillations in policy of which the Skybolt affair is the most recent noticeable example. Yet the attempt of other NATO powers such as France to create separate nuclear forces may damage rather than promote the military effectiveness of the alliance...
...United States possesses a nuclear arsenal fully sufficient, for the defense of herself and her allies without the help of the Skybolt. Yet the British and the French have exhibited uneasiness about the reliability of U.S. protection by attempting to create nuclear weapons of their...