They were so mesmerized by their "precious" that they couldn't badmouth it to save themselves.
Ideas from Roger Fisher, November 1964, on how to discourage other countries from wanting nuclear weapons. The "taboo" one is pretty interesting (as is the notes someone wrote beside it: "bad"). (From US State Department files.)pic.twitter.com/nw13tp2aPf
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I suspect the issue in State was not that they loved the bombs, but that they saw (correctly?) that if the US took on an official diplomatic line of "nukes are bad," that this would lead (correctly) to charges of hypocrisy.
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This is the same issue the US faces now with the Ban Treaty.
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Exactly. The insistence that "we can have these weapons and you can't."
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This is extremely interesting!
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“Security guarantees” made me chuckle since they aren’t worth the paper they are written on. See Ukraine.
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Part of this logic made it in to the Gilpatric Committee report a few months later.pic.twitter.com/HWiHz0BQo3
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Love the idea of "Hiroshima units," and all the comments in the margins.
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