CSPAN3 Nixon Vietnam And The October 1969 Nuclear Alert November 21, 2015
The nixon and administration. Jeff had written a major book on nixon and the vietnam war, while i had written on kissinger and was trying to get documents on the alert declassified. More research and eventually had enough source material to write an article. Its published in cold war history in early 2003. We give the first full account of the alert and argued that the Readiness Test as it was officially known, was an exercise in the context of the stalled negotiations on the vietnam war. Warn wanted to end the quickly and was angry with the soviets and soviet leadership for not helping to arr...
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