Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solidarity with West Berlin, reaffirmed by President Nixon during his European visit two months ago, only 23% of Americans would be willing to risk nuclear war if West Berlin were in danger of Communist invasion. A notably larger number, 31%, would take that risk if Cuba, backed by the Soviet Union, threatened to take over Venezuela. Only in one hypothetical situation on Harris' questionnaire-"If Cuba, backed by the Russians, threatened to take over Mexico"-would Americans be willing to use nuclear weapons, and that by only a minuscule 43%-41% margin...
...respond differently. Harris found that Easterners would not run the nuclear risk for Mexico, 36% to 49%, while Westerners would, 51% to 36%; the explanation, presumably, is the obvious difference in geographical proximity. The young (under 35) tend to oppose use of nuclear weapons in the context of a Soviet-supported Cuban threat to Mexico by 43% to 40%, while their elders generally favor it by slightly more than the same margin. Those who voted for Humphrey in 1968 are against using nuclear weapons (44% to 42%). Nixon voters tend to favor them (46% to 41%) as a last resort...
Israel is a special case outside the principal orbit of protection. There is a small majority (44% to 39%) in favor of going to the aid of the Israelis should Soviet-aided Arabs threaten to overrun them, but only 9% of those sampled believe that the U.S. should go so far as to send in troops. "Clearly," Harris observes, "the American people are not prepared to make to Israel anything like the commitment that we have made to South Viet...
SENATOR McGovern uses the history of U.S. ABM research and development to devastate the second argument. It takes a considerable amount of time, about five or six years, to test and deploy any ABM system. Because of the complexity of the system, an ABM system is not something the Soviets could erect and use without ample time for the U.S. to construct a similar defense. We seem to have learned quickly about the system the Soviets were deploying around MosCow. Assuming the CIA is equally efficient in discovering a nationwide deployment of an ABM system by the Soviets, we would...
Should over-all deterrence fail, it would give the President the option of a flexible response rather than a spasm response, as the nation would not lie naked to the Soviet attack. Our weapons would have more chance of survival for use as needed...