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...which one was committed. Now the demonstrations are about civil rights and American policy toward the revolutions in underdeveloped countries. Yet America's policy toward these revolutions is to an astounding degree, as Raymond Aron suggests in The Great Debate, a result of the relationship between the American thermonuclear force and the Soviet one. Aron outlines with incredible brilliance the whole theory of power (the McNamara Doctrine) behind American foreign policy...
...with a strategy of graduated response. If, for example, the Soviet Union misreads American intentions as it did in Korea, the U.S. is now prepared to meet Russia with conventional weapons first instead of immediately blowing both civilizations off the map. If the Russians were still unconvinced, tactical nu- thermonuclear responses ranging from "counterforce" (against Soviet missiles) to "countercity" (self-evident) could be applied...
...burying their missiles in hardened silos, greatly increasing their ability to destroy the other side entirely even if the enemy struck first. This means that the value of a preemptive nuclear strike is going down and, consequently, that it is becoming less and less logical to actually employ thermonuclear weapons...
...crucial factor in U.S. strategy by operating as a relay station that would send messages from superior command stations on the ground to SAC bombers and missile-launching sites. If all or most ground commands were wiped out, the AEAO would take over the direction of a U.S. thermonuclear retaliation. Through a multiple-checked series of authentications, he would break open a locked "red box" and issue the "Go" orders to missile sites and bomber bases that would send nuclear warheads toward preselected targets. Says one AEAO officer, Major General Alvan C. Gillem: "If I were the last remaining American...
...deck to elude enemy radar, the TSR-2 was first intended to be a light bomber. Later the plane was modified for direct support of ground troops, replacing the canceled Blue Water artillery missile. Then two years ago, when the U.S. decided to scrub its Skybolt air-to-ground thermonuclear missile, which had been destined for sale to the R.A.F., TSR-2 was again modified-this time to play the role of a "hedgehopping" strategic strike and reconnaissance bomber...