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Less than three years after the chain reaction in Chicago, the U.S. had built atomic bombs and dropped one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki. The years since then have witnessed, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, a vast buildup of nuclear weapons-more than enough, it is often pointed out, to be theoretically capable of destroying every human being on earth. And the continuing deadlock of U.S. and Russian negotiators in the test-ban talks at Geneva indicates that men cannot expect in the foreseeable future a trustworthy nuclear disarmament agreement between East and West...
...during those four weeks. But that critical question remained: What to do about Castro? For so long as he remains in power, the Caribbean will remain in crisis and Cuba will be a staging area for Communist subversion, or outright aggression, throughout Latin America. Long before the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba became apparent, it was obvious that Castro was a threat to vital U.S. interests in the Caribbean. Now the U.S. hopes that economic and political pressures will be enough to topple a discredited Castro-and such look-no-hands methods would certainly be preferable...
Castro's threats came close to being the last straw. The U.S. Government announced that not only would it continue its aerial reconnaissance flights until it had proof that a military buildup had stopped, but that it would defend the flights if necessary. If Castro shoots down a U.S. aircraft, the U.S. is prepared to 1) bomb certain Cuban antiaircraft installations already targeted for U.S. air strikes, and 2) bomb the Il-28s now crated or semiassembled at San Julian airfield in western Cuba...
...task force to find out why the G.O.P. had fared so poorly in the cities-of 41 U.S. cities with a population of 300,000 or more, Nixon won a majority in only 14. The Bliss report put much of the blame on lackadaisical party organizations, urged a buildup of permanent local organizations with fulltime, paid staffs. In the 1962 elections, Republicans did much better in the cities. Pennsylvania's Governor-elect William Scranton got 43% of the votes in Philadelphia as against Nixon's 32% in 1960, and Michigan's Governor-elect George Romney...
Need to Know. As the fog of talk grew thicker the U.S. Navy announced that its ships recently had detected and followed Soviet submarines in the Caribbean and the Atlantic until they surfaced. The subs were allowed to go peacefully on their way. Although the U.S. military buildup continued, the Administration, as far as anyone on the outside knew, had put no strong pressure on the Soviet Union by insisting that U.N. inspectors be allowed into Cuba by a specified deadline-or else. To many, this tolerant attitude suggested that Kennedy may have struck some kind of understanding with Khrushchev...