CSPAN Today In Washington July 5, 2011
everything was under rocks, in mountainsides, harbors were built. nothing exposed except a civilian population so a countervailing strike would have been nothing so there was no point in doing that. what was the ultimate reason? president nixon thought that by not reacting militarily in that early provocation, whether we committed the provocation or they committed the provocation by shooting down the 121, sending a signal to the chinese that we intended to pursue a reasonable course, and would not resort immediately to force. the sino-soviet split came as a result of the cuban missil...