[lbo-talk] Nixon's nuclear ploy

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Sun Jun 29 17:31:27 PDT 2003


Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

January/February 2003

Volume 59, No. 1, pp. 28-37, 72-73

Nixon's nuclear ploy

By William Burr & Jeffrey Kimball

Richard Nixon thought a secret, worldwide nuclear alert would remain unknown to the American public, and he was right. But his strategy-to threaten the Soviets into helping bring an end to the Vietnam war-was unsuccessful. They may not even have noticed.

http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/jf03/jf03burr.html



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