Word: programing
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...mistake common to both these approaches to the problem is a failure to discuss it within the context of the strategy of deterrence which the United States has presumably adopted. I believe that an adequate civil defense program is not worth the money, that a greater contribution of deterrence can be made by expenditure on relatively invulnerable weapons systems and on greater mobility and fire power for our conventional forces. Bomb shelters, being an essentially static and inflexible strategic element, could probably in the course of time generate an offensive weapon that would nullify their value. For instance, trench warfare...
...most persuasive case for an adequate shelter program, which Mr. Schnur failed to make, and which I reject for the above reasons, is the possible contribution such a system would make to the deterrent posture of the United States... It is estimated that under current conditions, without an adequate civil defense program, nuclear war would result in sixty million American casualties. It is almost incredible that an American president would invoke such a holocaust in the case of a Soviet invasion limited to Europe. But if the enemy should ever come to believe that we would not carry...
There are two practicable ways to prevent such a disadvantageous situation from occurring. We could undertake a vast civil defense program to reduce probable American casualties to an estimated ten million and thus render at least credible our threat of massive retaliation to an invasion of Europe... Or, because of the deficiencies I mentioned earlier of a shelter system, we can increase vastly the fire power and mobility of our conventional and tactical nuclear forces in Europe. Though I would advocate the latter approach, a civil defense program, accompanied by constant statements of our belief in its considerable effectiveness...
Upon being asked, by the University, to design the proposed Loeb Drama Center, I was given a program entitled, "What the Building Should Be and Do." The purpose and requirements were so clearly stated and such a challenge that they could not fail to excite any architect. For me, it was probably even more exciting, as for many years, I had been interested in theaters and buildings for similar purposes...
What interested me most in the Harvard theater program was the incompatibility of the types of "staging" desired in the main theater. To quote the program...