Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both before and after dinner, Kennedy met with State Secretary Dean Rusk, CIA Director Allen Dulles and Bundy. The men were as yet uncertain about the precise reasons behind the Soviet move, but two points seemed clear. First, the Russians had lost a war of nerves and suffered a considerable propaganda defeat, particularly in the eyes of the neutral nations, by unilaterally breaking the atomic test moratorium. Second, the U.S. would have to resume its own tests...
...cold war politics that the President must weigh. Beyond this, there was the critical issue of whether the U.S. should resume its nuclear-weapons tests. The President dispatched Negotiator Arthur H. Dean back to Geneva on a "most vital mission," that of informing the Soviet Union in no uncertain terms that it must quit stalling on test-ban negotiations or face the consequences...
...Uncertain Inheritance
...such circumstances. East Germans had the prudent alternatives of flight or putting up with it. The uncertain factor was whether, as the tension over Berlin increased, prudence would prevail...
...Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary: "I certainly object to the notion of killing people to save your own life. Even if you shoot people to save your family when your family's own survival is questionable, that is the use of a certainly evil means to attain an uncertain end; it assumes you know the end. The Christian counsel here is that one tries to do what is least evil and asks forgiveness...