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Robert McNamara is a war criminal. We need not quibble about this. By his own, well-publicized admission, during World War II both he and General Curtis E. LeMay “were behaving as war criminals” when they incinerated hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in massive firebombing raids. If not for the Allied victory, an international war crimes tribunal might have recommended that McNamara be blindfolded and shot. Instead, he got a promotion...
...THURSDAY Speed skaters Chris Witty of the U.S. and Catriona LeMay Doan of Canada will duel in the 1,000 m. Kristina Koznick, a young slalom skier, could be a surprise medalist...
General Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff: I think that a blockade, a political talk, would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this. You're in a pretty bad fix, Mr. President...
...LeMay: You're in a pretty...
...counter this, LeMay actually proposed "a nuclear Sunday punch," a pre-emptive strike against the Soviets. In 1949 he wanted to send an armada of U.S. planes, carrying the entire Los Alamos stockpile--numbering more than 100 atom bombs--to destroy 70 Soviet cities. It was out of fear that a hot-headed general like LeMay might be able to launch a nuclear attack on his own that the Kennedy Administration later instituted a complex chain of commands governing the use of nuclear weapons...