Index

• Ad Hoc Panel on Nuclear Test Requirements, 784
• Adams, Sherman, 554
• Adenauer, Konrad, 594, 595
• Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 74, 281
• Afghanistan, 365
• Africa, 47, 54, 55, 190, 302, 365, 432, 480
• Air Force, U.S. (see also Strategic Air Command), 286, 362n
  • Airborne alert, 373–375
  • Aircraft:
    • B-47, 375, 402–403, 425–431
    • B-52, 334–335, 347–348, 374–375, 402
    • B-58, 336–337, 345, 347–348
    • B-70, 186, 337, 338n, 344, 347, 381–382
    • BOMARC squadrons, 348–349, 395
    • C-130–B, 397
    • C-130–E, 530
    • F–108, 186, 344
    • RB-47
    • U–2, 410
  • Army, trading responsibilities with, 253
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 462–463, 499, 500, 506
  • Fund reprogramming, 397
  • Limited military operations, 83
  • Missile systems, 361
  • Research and development, 336
  • Soviet capabilities, 358
• Algeria, 46, 375
• Allen, George V., 19, 95, 250–251, 399–400, 702
• Alphand, Hervé, 867
• Amory, Robert, 601n, 882
• Anderson, Robert B., 145n, 244, 461
  • Aircraft, 348
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 814
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 159–161
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 465
  • Economic assistance programs, 55, 93
  • Economy, U.S., 96
  • Gaither Report (deterrence and survival in the nuclear age), 8
  • Limited military operations, 90, 484, 487
  • Military Air Transport Service, 349–350
  • Nuclear weapons, 241
  • Radar system, 76
  • Space programs, 282
• Arab Union, 120
• Armed forces, U.S. (see also specific service branches):
  • Basic National Security Policy, 57, 65–66, 101–105, 139–144, 295–300, 339–342
  • Continental defense, 32–40, 253, 466–473, 513–516
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 145–147, 152–171
  • Defense Department 1961 budget, 331–339, 342–352, 409, 411
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 461–465, 498–508
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 59–60, 117–118
  • Field commanders, 353
  • Humanitarian activities, 250–251
  • Limited military operations, 26–29, 57, 80–90, 119–124, 128–131, 146, 165–166, 197–200, 229–234, 242, 256–257, 325, 433–436, 474–476, 479–482, 483–490, 495, 508–513, 529–532
  • Local aggression, 285n, 286–287, 341
  • Massive retaliation concept, 49–51, 62–64, 67–68
  • Military Air Transport Service, 349–350, 369, 530–531
  • Military capabilities reviewed, 339–340
  • Military Logistics Planning Base, 312–313, 416–419
  • Military programs, status of, 494–498, 507
  • Mobilization Base, 114–115, 171–172, 273, 275, 276, 312–313, 324–325, 419n, 531–532
  • Money distributed among, 255
  • Military posture, 73–74
  • Nash Report, 45–49
  • Overseas bases/personnel, 45–49, 254, 268–270, 341–342, 477–478
  • Readiness measures, 425–433
  • Reserve units, 333–334, 344, 426, 479, 500–502
  • Space projects, 280
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 4–9
  • Tanks, 497
  • Targeting concepts, 383–385, 408n, 420–421, 442–451, 482–483, 491–493
• Armed Forces Policy Council, 461–465, 479–482
• Arms control and disarmament policy (see also Nuclear weapons; Nuclear weapons testing), 111–112, 309–310, 776–777, 816, 836, 906–908
  • Advisory panel on, 554–555, 590–597
  • Black box concept, 877
  • Coolidge’s report, 804–811
  • Detection systems, 616–617
  • East-West meeting, 881
  • Farley’s recommendations, 557–561
  • Fissionable material, 558–559, 837–842, 844–845, 886–888
  • Force reductions, U.S., 594
  • Foreign Ministers meetings, 773–774, 867–872
  • Gnome Project, 846–847
  • Inspection zones, 560, 680, 688–690, 842, 843, 910
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff, 810–842, 906–908
  • Khrushchev–Eisenhower meeting, 774–777
  • Macmillan–McCone meeting, 789–791
  • Manpower and conventional arms, 559–560
  • McCone’s assessments, 755–757, 879–880
  • Missile systems, 807, 812–815, 855–860
  • Norstad Plan, 806, 807, 887
  • NSC consideration of, 619–620, 745–746, 836–845
  • Nuclear delivery systems, 884–885, 887
  • Outdated devices, 889–890
  • Police force with tactical nuclear weapons, international, 549–550
  • Reciprocal scheme, 890–891
  • Review of, 590–597, 734–736, 753–754
  • Satellites, 909
  • Science Advisory Committee (SAC), 597–599
  • Sequence of implementation, 845–846
  • Stassen’s proposals, 551–553
  • Summit meeting and, 551, 590–591, 757–759, 774–777, 873–878
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 666–669, 674–675, 677–679, 690–691
  • Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament meeting, 832–833, 836–846, 867–872, 880–888, 894–896
  • Treaty enforcement, 685–687
  • U.N. Disarmament Commission, 599–600, 745–748
  • United Kingdom and, 762, 789–791, 831–832, 845–846, 848, 891
  • United Nations, 912
  • U.S. Disarmament Administration, 905
  • U.S. position, 620–623, 696–698, 745–748, 882–893:
    • Eisenhower address to the U.N., 906–910
    • Eisenhower’s meetings on, 683–690, 708–712, 714–718, 751–754, 759–762, 774–776, 817–819, 848–849, 861–863, 901–904
  • U.S.–U.K. discussion, 874–878
  • Western powers’ principles, 873–874
  • Working Group on U.S., 601–602
• Army, U.S., 362n
  • Air Force, trading responsibilities with, 253
  • Balanced forces, 286
  • Conventional capabilities, 242
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 462, 499–500, 504–505
  • Limited military operations, 230
  • Personnel levels, 344
  • Research and development, 341
  • Targeting concepts, 420–421
• Asia, 302, 341, 364, 365, 531
• Atomic Energy Act, 1954, 591, 598, 606, 624, 877
• Atomic Energy Commission (see also McCone, John A.), 362n, 608
  • Defense requirements, 900
  • Detection systems, 738
  • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 697, 699
  • Nuclear explosion, definition of, 664–665
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 270, 545, 564, 606, 622, 645, 658–659, 693, 781, 834
  • Phased approach to test cessation, 750
  • Soviet Union, 786–787
  • Stockpile of atomic weapons, 467
  • United Kingdom, cooperation with, 606, 650
  • Working Group on U.S. Disarmament Policy, 601–602
• Atomic energy program (see also, Arms control and disarmament policy; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear weapons testing), 314, 672–674
• Australia, 47
• Bacher, Robert F., 611, 612, 760
• Baker, Vincent, 624n, 631, 638, 662, 777, 820, 825, 850, 882
• Baker, Dr. William O., 458
• Bantz, Fred A., 461
• Baruch, Bernard M., 3, 805n
• Basic National Security Policy (see also National Security Council: Actions and Documents), 58, 61, 98–116, 619–620
  • Chemical and biological weapons, 249–250
  • China, People’s Republic of, 100–101, 110–112, 245, 310
  • Citizen support, 316
  • Civil defense, 272–273, 312
  • Communist Bloc/communism, 100–101, 107–112, 264–265, 307–310
  • Continental defense, 253
  • Defense Department comments, 125–128, 140–145, 229, 256
  • East–West trade, 267–268
  • Economic development assistance, 265–266
  • Economic policy, domestic, 271–272, 311
  • Eisenhower–Gray meeting re, 236–237
  • Free World countries, strengthening, 224–227, 269, 300–307
  • Humanitarian activities of Armed Forces, 250–251
  • Informational/educational/cultural/psychological programs, 310–311
  • Internal security, 312
  • Limited military operations, 229–234, 256–258
  • Local aggression, 246–248, 286–287
  • Manpower programs, 315
  • Military elements, 57, 65–66, 101–105, 139–144, 295–300, 339–342
  • Missile systems, 251–252, 254
  • Mobilization Base, 273, 275, 276, 312–313
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 147–152, 397–404, 407
  • Newly independent countries, 264, 265
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 103, 105, 234, 297
  • Nuclear weapons:
    • Allies, enhancing capabilities of, 262, 288–289, 298
    • Committing to using, 234–235
    • Deterrent power, 224
    • Integration of conventional weapons, 238–246, 258–259
    • Limited military operations, 229–234
    • Presidential authorization, 284–286
    • Research and development, 262–263
    • Retarding countries from acquiring/developing, 260–262
    • Soviet Union, 221–224
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 544–545, 585–589
  • Outline of, 292–295
  • Overseas bases/personnel, 268–270, 477–478
  • Population issues, 226
  • Preamble, 220–221
  • Research and development, 315–316
  • Review and revision of earlier papers, 78–97
  • Satellites, 409–413, 452–453
  • Scientific cooperation, 316
  • Soviet Union, 100–101, 111, 221–224, 291, 359
  • Space programs, 273–275, 277–284, 314–315, 415
  • State Department, divisions within, 248
  • Stockpiling strategy, 313–314
  • Targeting concepts, 483
  • Underdeveloped countries, 266–267
  • War, defining general, 228, 244
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 206–207
• Beckler (Science Advisory Committee member), 612, 702, 704
• Berkner panel. see Panel on Seismic Improvement.
• Berkner, Lloyd V., 612, 697n, 705, 748n
• Berlin, 89–90
• Bernau, Phyllis D., 152n, 637n
• Bethe, Hans A., 546, 575n, 586–588
• Bethe panel on nuclear weapons testing, 575–589
• Bevan, Aneurin, 91
• Biological weapons. see Chemical and biological weapons.
• Bissell, Richard M., Jr., 458
• Blanchet, Jeremy, 797
• BNSP. see Basic National Security Policy.
• Boggs, Marion W., 25, 131, 132n, 135, 171, 213, 277, 291, 339n, 352, 359, 369, 375, 392, 404, 407, 412, 415, 419, 433, 466n, 473, 478, 490, 508, 513, 528, 658, 682, 804n, 811, 816, 855n, 860
• Bohlen, Charles E., 422–424, 909
• Borg, C. Arthur, 765, 850
• Boster, David E., 128n, 152, 607–608
• Boyd, Dr. Charles A., 218
• Bradbury, Dr. Morris, 611, 696
• Brent, Darcy, 638, 641–642, 765, 771
• Brode (Science Advisory Committee member), 612
• Bronk (Science Advisory Committee member), 612
• Brooks, Sir Norman, 725, 864
• Brosio, Manlio, 867
• Brown, Harold, 575n, 662
• Brucker, Wilber M., 62, 338n, 461, 464, 480, 497, 504
• Brundage, Percival E., 17, 19, 540
• Budget, U.S. Bureau of the, 349
• Bulganin, Nikolai A., 589
• Bulgaria, 774
• Burke, Adm. Arleigh A., 216, 223, 387n, 442
  • Aircraft carriers, 157–158
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 815, 859, 860
  • Communist Bloc/communism, 432
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 463, 505
  • Fissionable material, 840
  • Limited military operations, 241–242, 244, 480, 481
  • Massive retaliation concept, 63
  • Military readiness, 429
  • Missile systems, 162, 408n
  • Mobilization Base, 275
  • Retaliatory efforts, alternative, 383
  • Targeting concepts, 443–451
  • Training programs, 346
• Byers, Gen. Clovis E., 631, 638, 644, 662
• Cabell, Gen. Charles P., 586, 816, 882
• Caccia, Sir Harold A., 257, 610n, 720, 725, 845n, 864, 867
• Calhoun, John A., 777
• Calhoun, William R., 148
• Cambodia, 432
• Canada, 217, 334, 559, 611, 617n, 656, 774, 868
• Carson, Mark, 575n
• Central Intelligence Agency, 10, 115, 314, 362n, 545, 564, 580, 601
• Chapman, Col. Lloyd, 399
• Chemical and biological weapons, 249–250, 296, 386, 434
• Chiang Kai-shek, 487
• China, People’s Republic of, 63, 90–91
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 775
  • Basic National Security Policy (NSC papers) on, 100–101, 110–112, 245, 310
  • Economy, 189
  • Hostile intent, evaluating, 120, 192–196, 293
  • Limited military operations, 485–488
  • Missile systems, 46
  • NIE 100–60 on, 362, 364
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 488, 575–581, 633, 639, 648, 740
  • Taiwan, 229
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 202–204, 208–209
• Churchill, Sir Winston, 64
• Civil defense, 113, 272–273, 312
• Civilian Readiness Base, 313
• Civil Reserve Air Fleet, 530–531
• Clausewitz doctrine, 176
• Coiner, Gen. Richard, 575n
• Colombo Plan countries, 549
• Commodity agreements, international, 91–92
• Communist Bloc/communism, 105, 195–196
  • Basic National Security Policy on, 100–101, 107–112, 307–310
  • East-West trade, 267–268
  • Hostile intent, evaluating, 54–55, 96, 264–265
  • Ideological issues, 176
  • Latin America, 432
  • Limited military operations, 495
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization and, 302
  • Underdeveloped countries, 365
  • Vulnerable nations, 303
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 204–205
• Comparative Evaluations Group, 118–119
• Congo, 432, 480
• Congress, U.S., 173, 181–182, 349, 356–358, 395, 426, 430–431, 893
• Continental defense (see also Fallout shelter program), 32–40, 253, 466–473, 513–516
• Coolidge, Charles A., 804–811
• Cordiner Report, 1957 (military wages), 343, 346
• Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 91–92
• Couve de Murville, Maurice, 867, 868, 870, 871
• Coyne, J. Patrick, 32n, 38
• Cuba, 230–231, 240, 891
• Cumming, Hugh S., Jr., 654
• Cutler, Robert, 57, 62, 70, 120n, 567
  • Basic National Security Policy, 58, 61, 65–66
  • China, People’s Republic of, 90–91
  • Commodity agreements, international, 91–92
  • Communist Bloc/communism, 96
  • Continental defense, 32–37
  • Economic assistance programs, 94
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 59–60, 117–118
  • Fallout shelter program, 20
  • Gaither Report, 17–18
  • Limited military operations, 26–29, 80–90, 119–123
  • Missile systems, 30–31, 40–42, 72–73, 75
  • NIE 100–58, discussion of, 51–54
  • Nuclear weapons, 49–51
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 544, 561–563, 569–570, 573–574, 585, 588
  • Overseas bases/personnel, 45–47
  • Realistic national military strategy, 65–66
  • Review of basic policy, 78–79
  • Soviet Union, 69, 94–95
  • Strategic Air Command, 77
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 4–6, 8
  • Western Mediterranean Pact, proposed, 46
• Czechoslovakia, 54–55, 551, 594, 617n, 774
• Dabney, Gen. John A., 850, 882
• Dashiell, Capt. Edward L., 148
• Dean, Arthur, 725, 754
• Dean, Sir Patrick, 720
• Defense, U.S. Department of (see also McElroy, Neil H.) , 258n, 544–545
  • Air defense and military organization, 213–214
  • Arms control and disarmament policy:
    • Apprehensions expressed, 699
    • Sequence of implementation, 845–846
    • State Department, working with, 734
    • Ten–Nation Committee on Disarmament meeting, 832–833
    • Working Group on U.S. Disarmament Policy, 601
  • Basic National Security Policy, 126–128, 140–145, 239, 256
  • Budget, 1960, 145–147, 152–171
  • Budget, 1961, 331–339, 342–352, 409, 411
  • Budget, 1962, 461–465, 498–508
  • Chemical and biological weapons, 250
  • Continental defense, 34–36, 472, 514
  • Feasibility and desirability of particular military measures, 8
  • Fund reprogramming proposals, 394–397
  • Leadership issues, 255
  • Limited military operations, 26–29, 122, 131, 198–199, 489, 490, 529
  • Missile systems, 211n, 321, 322, 389–391
  • Mobilization Base, 171–172
  • Nuclear weapons, 270, 673
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 643, 659
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 782–783, 792, 795
    • Inspection zones, 685
    • Linkage to arms control and disarmament policy, 684
    • Moratorium provisions, 862
    • Quarles’ recommendations, 566
    • State Department, differences with, 787
    • Surprise attack policy considerations, 716
    • Threshold concept, 830
    • U.S. talks on suspending, 568–569
    • Working Group, 602
  • Pay increases, 426
  • Propellants, solid, 74
  • Radar early warning system, 76
  • Reconnaissance satellite program, 459
  • Reorganization of, 9
  • Satellites, 411, 413, 459–560
  • Soviet Union, 150
  • Space programs, 280, 282, 414–415
  • Strategic Air Command, 42–43
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 5–6, 716
• De Gaulle, Charles, 142, 189, 409, 813, 815
• Denmark, 11, 16, 69
• Department of Defense Reorganization Act, 1958 (PL. 85–599), 9
• Development Loan Fund, 108
• DEW line, 33, 338
• Dillon, C. Douglas, 216, 254, 256–257, 291, 748, 751, 816, 850, 861, 864, 882, 889
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 848, 849, 891, 893
  • Continental defense, 467–468
  • Economy, U.S., 271
  • Free World countries, strengthening, 225–226
  • Limited military operations, 258n, 484–487, 489
  • Local aggression, 286
  • Nuclear weapons, 260–261, 284
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 703, 760, 765–772, 778–789, 852, 863, 866
  • Space programs, 283
  • Underdeveloped countries, 266–267
• Disarmament policy. See Arms control and disarmament policy; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear weapons testing.
• Donovan, Arthur, 696
• Doolittle, Gen. James H., 612
• Dorsey, Col. R. S., 140
• Douglas, James H., 158–159, 338n, 355, 356, 372–374, 389–390, 396, 412n, 432, 442, 448, 850, 861
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 859
  • Limited military operations, 482, 529–532
  • Military programs, status of, 494–496
  • Military readiness, 429
  • Missile systems, 428
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 830, 851–853, 862
  • Satellites, 410, 503
  • Space programs, 415
  • Targeting concepts, 444
• Dryden, Hugh, 278–279, 280, 282, 284, 612
• Du Bridge, Dr. Lee A., 611
• Dubs, Adolph, 850, 882
• Dulles, Allen W., 120n, 479, 567, 610, 631, 638, 644, 692, 702, 725, 748, 751, 765, 792, 825, 850, 889
  • Airborne alert, 374–375
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 554–555, 860
  • Chemical and biological weapons, 386
  • Congress, U.S., 358
  • Defense Department, 1960 budget for, 167
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 59, 118
  • Fallout shelter program, 13–15, 522
  • Limited military operations, 28, 89, 123, 124, 128–130, 481
  • Military posture, 73–74
  • Missile systems, 25
  • Newly independent countries, 264
  • NIE 100–58, discussion of, 52, 54–55
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 630
    • Concealed, 760
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 571, 657, 704, 800, 851
    • Macmillan–Eisenhower meeting, 727
    • Soviet ultimatum on, 613–615
    • Soviet Union, 671–672, 675–676
    • Stassen’s proposals, 538–540
    • Threshold concept, 828–829
  • Soviet Union:
    • Intelligence activities, 504
    • Khrushchev speech, 291
    • Military capabilities of, 188–189, 215–216, 317–319, 354–355, 359, 367–368
    • Missile systems, 69, 135–139, 180, 366–367, 375
    • NIE 100–60 on, 370–372
  • Underdeveloped countries, 189–190
• Dulles, John Foster, 1, 3, 127n, 597, 609–612, 683
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 553–554, 690–691, 699
  • Basic National Security Policy, 57, 141–144
  • China, People’s Republic of, 90–91
  • Commodity agreements, international, 92
  • Communist Bloc/communism, 96
  • Defense Department, 1960 budget for, 152–153
  • Economic assistance programs, 93–94
  • Economy, U.S., 95–96
  • NIE 100–58, discussion of, 53–55
  • Fallout shelter program, 14–15, 19, 21, 56
  • Gaither Report, 6–8
  • Limited military operations, 26–29, 85–90, 121–123, 130, 146
  • Massive retaliation concept, 62–64
  • Missile systems, 42
  • Nuclear weapons, 145n, 146
  • Nuclear weapons testing:
    • Bethe panel, 586–588
    • Detection systems, 687
    • Eisenhower, meeting with, 616–617, 676–677
    • Gray, meeting with, 669
    • Hammarskjöld, meeting with, 599–600
    • Khrushchev–Eisenhower communications, 589–590
    • Killian, meeting with, 607–608
    • Linkage to arms control and disarmament policy, 684
    • Macmillan–Eisenhower meeting, 719–720, 728
    • Recommendations made, 604–606, 624–630, 651–653
    • Soviet Union and, 567–568, 610–611
    • Stassen’s proposals, 543
    • Strauss, meeting with, 608–609
    • U.S. position, 568–572, 590–597
  • Soviet Union, 174–178
  • Space programs, 541
• Dunning, John R., 218, 219
• Dynasoar. see Reconnaissance satellites.
• Eaton, Frederick M., 832, 841, 882–885, 887, 888, 894–896
• Economic assistance programs, U.S., 55, 91–95, 104–108, 111, 265–266, 304–305
• Economy, U.S., 95–96, 106, 112–113, 159–161, 271–272, 311, 465
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., 9, 190–191, 254
  • Aircraft, 347–348
  • Air defense and military organization, 213–214
  • Arms control and disarmament policy:
    • Coolidge’s report, 808
    • Detection systems, 616–617
    • Fissionable material, 837–842
    • Gnome Project, 846–847
    • Inspection zones, 688–690, 842, 910
    • Khrushchev, meeting with, 774–777
    • McCone’s assessments, 879–880
    • Missile systems, 860
    • Nuclear testing separate from general disarmament, 710–712
    • Peaceful explosions, 849
    • Satellites, 909
    • Sequence of implementation, 845–846
    • Soviet Union, 817–819
    • Surprise attack policy considerations, 677–679
    • Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament meeting, 832–833
    • Treaty enforcement, 686–687
    • U.S. position, 881
  • Atomic energy program, 673
  • Basic National Security Policy, discussion of, 57, 58, 61, 248
    • Chemical and biological weapons, 249–250
    • Communist Bloc/communism, 265
    • Economic development assistance, 266
    • Economic policy, domestic, 272
    • Free World nations, 225–226
    • Gray, meeting with, 236–237
    • Humanitarian activities of Armed Forces, 250–251
    • Limited military operations, 229–234, 256–257
    • Local aggression, 246–247, 286–287, 341
    • Military capabilities, 340
    • Missile systems, 251–252
    • Mobilization Base, 275, 276
    • Newly independent countries, 264, 265
    • Nuclear weapons, 234–235, 239–246, 263, 284–286, 288–289
    • Overseas bases/personnel, 268, 342
    • Population issues, 226
    • Soviet Union and, 223–224
    • Space programs, 274, 275, 278–284
    • Underdeveloped countries, 267
    • War, defining general, 228, 244
  • China, People’s Republic of, 91, 192–195
  • Commodity agreements, international, 92
  • Continental defense, 466–473
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 153, 168, 169–171
  • Defense Department 1961 budget, 331–339
  • Defense funds, reprogramming, 394–397
  • Economic assistance programs, 94
  • NIE 100–58, discussion of, 54–55
  • Executive Order No. 10173, 32
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 59–60, 117–118
  • Fallout shelter program, 13–14, 16–17, 19, 20–21
  • Field commanders, 353
  • Incapacitating agents, 386
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff, 255
  • Kennedy, meeting with, 493
  • Limited military operations, 28–29, 87–90, 120–124, 130, 131, 199, 200, 483–490
  • Military Air Transport Service, 369
  • Military Logistics Planning Base, 417–419
  • Military programs, status of, 494–498
  • Military readiness, 426–433
  • Military training programs, 346–347
  • Missile systems, 217, 354, 361
    • Anti-intercontinental ballistic, 517–518
    • Appraisal of, 139n, 144
    • Doubts expressed, 162–163
    • Gaither Report, 71–75
    • Minuteman, 324, 373, 389–391, 405–406
    • Mobility concerns, 356
    • Navy, U.S., 361n
    • Polaris, 133–134, 387–388
    • Prioritizing, 41–42, 187, 319–322
    • Protection for, 186
    • Reaction time, 374
    • Secrecy, 135
    • Soviet Union, 31, 185
    • Titan, 158–159
  • Mobilization Base, 171–172, 324–325, 419n
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 407
  • Nuclear weapons, 183–184, 196–197, 218–219, 385n, 520–523, 527
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 408
    • Atmospheric, 714, 718
    • Bethe Panel, 586, 588
    • Clean vs. dirty, 562–563
    • Concealed, 760, 904
    • Detection systems, 682–683, 762
    • Dulles, John Foster, meeting with, 616–617, 676–677
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 613–615, 657, 681, 708, 737–740, 854n, 898
    • Inspection zones, 618, 685, 716–717
    • Khrushchev, communications with, 589–590, 730, 745, 761
    • Linkage to arms control and disarmament policy, 684
    • Macmillan, communications with, 709–710
    • Macmillan, meeting with, 719–728, 772–773
    • Moratorium provisions, 861–863
    • Outline of a series of U.S. tests, 759–760
    • Panel on Seismic Improvement, 751–754
    • Recommendations made, 630, 647–651
    • Science Advisory Committee, 612–613
    • Soviet policy, 613–615, 672
    • Soviet ultimatum re, 613–615
    • Stassen’s proposals, 540–544
    • Surprise attack policy considerations, 715–716
    • Threshold concept, 821, 834–836
    • U.S. position, 569–572, 653–654
    • U.S.–U.K. relations and, 848, 864–866, 891, 901–904
  • Overseas bases/personnel, 46, 47, 48n, 254, 477
  • Passive defense of the population, 519
  • Pressuring allies, 95
  • Publicity and defense posture, 181–183
  • Radar early warning system, 76
  • Retaliatory capabilities, 242
  • Satellites, 409–414
  • Soviet Union (see also Summit meeting below):
    • Comparative Evaluations Group, 118–119
    • NIE 100–60 and, 370–371
    • Hostile intent, evaluating, 7–9, 145, 149–151, 172–173, 176, 178
    • Militant line adopted by, 422–424
    • Military capabilities, 216, 355–359
    • Missile systems, 25, 137–138, 358–359, 367
    • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 399–403
    • Sputnik, 372
  • Space programs, 415, 541
  • Stockpiling strategy, 352, 524
  • Strategic Air Command, 43–44
  • Summit meeting with Khrushchev, 551, 590–591, 757–759, 774–777, 873–78
  • Targeting concepts, 408, 420–421, 443–448, 482–483
  • U–2 incident, 410
  • Unconditional surrender, 197
  • Unilateral service planning, 467
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 202–206
• Eisenhower, Maj. John S.D., 183, 422, 442, 683n, 684, 687, 714, 716, 718, 720, 762, 889, 893, 909, 910
• Elbrick, C. Burke, 557n
• Electromagnetic detection techniques, 577–578
• English, Spofford G., 748, 751, 778, 820, 824, 850, 888
• Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 59–60, 117–118
• Fallout shelter program (see also Civil defense), 10–23, 56, 470, 519–527, 563n
• Far East (see also specific countries), 47, 121–123, 435
• Farley, Philip J., 557–561, 590, 597, 599, 601n, 609, 611, 612, 620–623, 628, 631, 638, 643, 684, 692–695, 702, 720, 733n, 748, 777, 792, 797, 816, 820, 821, 825, 829, 830, 850, 867, 874, 891n
• Federal Civil Defense Administration, 10, 11
• Fergusson, Col, 882
• Fields, Gen., 611
• Fisk, James B., 597, 611, 612, 620, 634, 654–657, 667–668, 793, 797, 798–801, 816, 817
• Floberg, John F., 824
• Fluckey, Capt. Eugene B., 399
• Ford, Gerald R., 334, 338
• Formosa. see Taiwan.
• Foster, Capt. Clifford S., 631, 638
• Foster, Adm. Paul, 547, 601n, 692
• Foster, William C., 677–681, 691, 754
• Fox, Gen. Alonzo P., 601n, 610, 765, 778, 797, 820, 825, 850, 882
• France, 11, 16, 46, 142, 143, 189, 261–262, 264, 364, 551, 592, 593, 606, 611, 617n, 656, 774, 807, 882, 895
• Furnas, Howard, 255–258, 479
• Gaither, H. Rowan, Jr., 1n
• Gaither Report (deterrence and survival in the nuclear age):
  • Costs and economic consequences of recommended programs, 17–19
  • Fallout shelter program, 10–23
  • Limited military operations, 26–29, 119n
  • Missile systems, 3, 6, 40–42, 70–78
  • Presentation to Eisenhower, 1–3
  • Public impression of, 2
  • Release to Congress, 7–8
  • Reports requested, 23–25
  • Strategic Air Command, 42–44
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 4–9
• Gates, Thomas S., Jr., 64, 216, 232, 233, 234, 273, 333, 338, 406, 748, 751, 765, 778, 792, 797, 816, 880, 889
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 813, 837–839, 882, 884, 893
  • Defense Department 1961 budget, 409, 411
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 498–507
  • Defense reprogramming, 394–397
  • Limited military operations, 479, 481
  • Military Logistics Planning Base, 416–418
  • Military programs, status of, 494, 498
  • Military readiness, 425–432
  • Missile systems, 355–356, 358, 387–388, 517
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 401, 403
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 760, 769–771, 782–783, 788, 795–796, 820–825
  • Satellites, 410, 412–413
  • Targeting concepts, 442–446
• Geneva Conference of Experts on Surprise Attack, 1958, 677–679, 680–681, 680–681, 687, 690
• Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests. See under Nuclear weapon testing.
• Geneva Technical Conferences on Nuclear Testing. See under Nuclear weapons testing.
• Germany, 11, 89–90, 142, 146, 152, 189, 549, 591, 592, 594, 595
• Gleason, S. Everett, 4n, 9, 30, 32n, 40, 44, 49, 56, 70n, 78, 97, 118, 119n, 124, 145, 147n, 152, 168, 179, 201, 207, 220, 227, 253, 270, 545, 585n, 589, 615, 672n, 674
• Glennan, T. Keith, 274, 276, 279
• Goodby, James, 601n, 882
• Goodpaster, Gen. Andrew J., 32, 49n, 57, 62, 64, 65n, 120n, 137, 138, 184n, 187, 216n, 217–219, 228n, 235, 253, 255, 257, 332, 333, 338n, 339, 353, 361n, 388, 397, 408, 412, 414, 425, 551, 553, 567, 572, 603, 612n, 613, 616–618, 630, 639n, 648, 651, 670, 684, 687, 690, 709, 710, 712, 714, 716, 720, 725, 727, 751, 754, 776, 816, 819, 836, 846, 850, 861, 863, 864, 866n, 904
• Goodwin, Col., 340
• Gore, Albert, 848
• Gottfredson, M. R., 523
• Gotzlinger, Leopold, 825
• Gray, Gordon, 217, 258n, 333, 385, 412, 423, 479, 631, 638, 644, 648, 679, 684, 692, 748, 751, 765, 778, 816, 820, 826, 850, 861, 882, 889
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 754, 814, 815
  • Basic National Security Policy, 139–144
    • Chemical and biological weapons, 249–250
    • Communist Bloc/communism, 264–265
    • East-West trade, 267
    • Economic development assistance, 265–266
    • Eisenhower–Gray meeting, 236–237
    • Free World nations, strengthening, 224–226
    • Limited military operations, 232–233, 256–257
    • Local aggression, 246–247, 286–287
    • Military program, 139–144
    • Missile systems, 251–252
    • Mobilization Base, 273
    • Nuclear weapons, 238–246, 260–263, 284–285, 288–289
    • Overseas bases/personnel, 268
    • Preamble, 220–221
    • Space programs, 277–283
    • Underdeveloped countries, 266
    • War, defining general, 228, 244
  • China, People’s Republic of, 193
  • Continental defense, 36, 466–471
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 164, 166, 169–171
  • Fallout shelter program, 12–13
  • Gaither Report, 18–19
  • Limited military operations, 128–130, 197–198, 200, 481, 483, 488–489
  • Military programs, status of, 494, 497, 507
  • Missile systems, 211–212, 353, 516–518
  • Mobilization Base, 419n
  • Mutual Security Program, 431
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 147–151
  • Nuclear weapons, 197, 218, 521, 523–526
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 632, 635, 639, 640, 642–643, 647, 669, 694, 696, 702, 705, 772, 783–784, 787, 851–852, 853, 900
  • Satellites, 409–413
  • Soviet Union, 173–179, 190, 368, 398–400, 403
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 7, 674–675
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 202–206
• Green, Howard C., 867–869, 871–872
• Greene, Joseph N., Jr., 700–702
• Gromyko, Andrei A., 742–744, 777, 874–875
• Gruenther, Gen. Alfred M., 3n, 553–554, 555, 590, 595, 597, 604, 698
• Guinea, 264
• Hagerty, James C., 589, 714, 716
• Hague Conference, 1907, 591
• Hammarskjold, Dag, 599–600
• Hare, Raymond, 479
• Harlow, Bryce, 7
• Harr, Karl G., 423, 717
• Harriman, W. Averell, 318
• Haskins, Caryl P., 545–547, 612
• Haskins, Charles A., 220, 897n, 901
• Heeney, A.D.P., 867
• Herter, Christian A., 1, 47, 49n, 152n, 192, 193, 197, 353, 393n, 412n, 683, 709, 714, 716, 725, 772, 861, 909
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 816, 882
    • Coolidge’s report, 807–808
    • Executive agreements, 848
    • Fissionable material, 837, 842, 887–888
    • Foreign Ministers meeting, 867, 869–872
    • Inspection zones, 843
    • McCone’s assessments, 879
    • Missile systems, 813–814, 815, 859
    • Nuclear delivery systems, 884–885, 887
    • Review of, 734–736
    • Sequence of implementation, 845–846
    • Summit meeting and, 757–759
    • Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament meeting, 832–833
    • U.S. Disarmament Administration, 905
  • Basic National Security Policy, 223, 228, 229, 231, 233–234, 235, 240, 243–244, 248
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 464, 505
  • Fallout shelter program, 523
  • Free World’s doubts about U.S. policy, 371
  • Military programs, status of, 341, 495–497
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 619, 631, 633, 634–635
    • China, People’s Republic of, 639
    • Eisenhower’s recommendations, 648
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 631–632, 657, 681, 710, 712–714, 715, 729, 730–732, 739, 792–802, 851–854, 880, 897–900, 911
    • Gromyko and Lloyd, meeting with, 742–744
    • Inspection zones, 717
    • Macmillan–Eisenhower meeting, 720, 723, 727
    • Moratorium proposal by Macmillan, 733–734
    • Panel on Seismic Improvement, 694
    • Phasing the suspension, 646
    • Soviet proposal for ban on testing, 817–819, 849
    • Soviet Union and, 744, 758n
    • Threshold concept, 833–834
    • U.S.–U.K. discussion, 874–878
  • Overseas bases/personnel, 341
  • Satellites, 409
  • Soviet Union, 422–423
  • Stockpiling strategy, 525
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 205, 206
• Hickey, Gen. Thomas F., 149, 151, 382, 399, 402, 420, 492
• Hill, Albert G., 612
• Hillyard, Gen. H. L., 408n
• Hoegh, Leo A., 10, 11, 16, 17, 196–197, 273, 400, 519–520, 522, 524–526
• Holaday, William M., 30–31, 41, 70, 71, 75, 132–135, 156–157, 217
• Hoover, Herbert C., 62
• Hoover, J. Edgar, 272
• Hopwood, Adm. Herbert G., 421
• Howe, Fisher, 624n, 631, 638
• Hovde, Col. William J., 399
• Humphrey, Hubert H., 554, 865
• Hungary, 550
• Hussein I, ibn Talal, King of Jordan, 27
• Iceland, 142, 146, 152
• India, 226, 375
• Indochina, 122
• Indonesia, 54, 89
• Interagency Group on Surprise Attack, 666–669
• Intercontinental/intermediate–range ballistic missiles. see Missile systems.
• International Atomic Energy Agency, 314, 779
• Iran, 232, 435, 485
• Iraq, 232
• Irwin, John N., II, 127n, 461, 462, 479, 480, 484, 487, 684, 778, 782, 797, 799, 842, 850, 861, 862, 863, 880, 882, 884, 885, 888
• Israel, 375
• Italy, 11, 46, 143, 774
• Jackson, Henry M., 409–410
• Johnson, Lyndon B., 7, 410, 892
• Johnson, Robert H., 319n, 323
• Joint Chiefs of Staff, 27, 362n, 393, 909
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 810, 842, 906–908
  • Basic National Security Policy, 140, 222, 230, 239, 261–262, 288–289
  • B–70 program, 338n
  • Continental defense, 35, 514–516
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 463, 499
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 117–118
  • Fallout shelter program, 15, 56
  • Leadership issues, 255
  • Limited military operations, 27–29, 82–83, 129, 130, 198–199, 200, 325, 484, 489, 490, 508–513, 529–530
  • Military capabilities, review of, 339–340
  • Military Logistics Planning Base, 418
  • Military programs, status of, 495, 496
  • Military readiness, 425, 426, 429
  • Missile systems, 71, 526
  • Navy, disputes with, 407–408
  • Nuclear weapons, 467
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 533, 536, 555–557, 565, 644–645, 647
  • Overseas bases/personnel, 45–46
  • Reserve forces, 333–334
  • Retaliatory capabilities, 383–385
  • Soviet Union, 177, 503–504
  • Targeting concepts, 420–421, 443–451, 482–483
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 206
  • Weapon systems, appraisal of competing, 139n, 144, 164
• Joint Strategic Operations Plan, 463
• Joint Strategic Planning Staff, 491–492
• Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, 447n
• Jones, Roger, 673
• Kavanaugh, Dr. George, 662
• Keeny, Spurgeon M., Jr., 601n, 631, 632, 638, 639n, 647, 660, 662, 692, 702, 705, 765, 778, 788, 797, 820, 826, 850, 882
• Kennedy, John F., 493, 495, 892
• Khrushchev, Nikita S., 229, 242, 291, 319, 358, 367–368, 405, 409, 410, 411, 430
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 841
  • Missile systems, 179–180
  • Nixon, communications with, 318
  • Nuclear weapons testing:
    • Atmospheric, 744
    • Dulles–Killian meeting, 607
    • Eisenhower, communications with, 589–590, 730, 745, 761
    • Inspection zones, 721
    • Moratorium provisions, 861, 862
    • Public statements, 574
    • Threshold concept, 826
    • U.S. offers to stoptesting, 654
  • Summit meeting with Eisenhower, 551, 590–591, 757–759, 774–777, 873–878
  • United Nations, 480
• Killian, Dr. James R., Jr., 49n, 70n, 217, 458, 604, 631, 638, 644, 687, 720, 748, 751
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 616–617, 753–754, 815
  • Chemical and biological weapons, 249–250
  • Continental defense, 34–36
  • Fallout shelter program, 16, 17
  • Gaither Report, 18
  • Missile systems, 6, 31, 41, 73, 74
  • Nuclear weapons, 183, 245
  • Nuclear weapons testing:
    • Bethe panel, 575n, 586
    • China, People’s Republic of, 639
    • Detection systems, 610–612, 682–683
    • Dulles, John Foster, meeting with, 607–608
    • Dulles’ recommendations, 626, 628–629
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 739
    • Inspection zones, 593, 617–618, 753
    • Joint U.S.–U.K. Technical Group to Review Technical Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Test Detection, 765
    • Macmillan–Eisenhower meeting, 721–724
    • Panel on Seismic Improvement, 692–696, 749–750
    • Phasing the suspension, 646
    • Research and development, 623n
    • Science Advisory Committee, 542, 597–599, 603–604
    • Underground/water explosions, 711
    • U.S. policy, 634–638
  • Radar early warning system, 76
  • Satellites, 413
  • Science Advisory Committee, 184–187
  • Soviet missile capability, 172–173
  • Space programs, 255
  • Strategic Air Command, 43–44
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 4–5
• King, Adm. Ernest J., 421
• Kirchenko, A. I., 368
• Kistiakowsky, Dr. George B., 70n, 333, 375n, 415, 448, 546, 612, 669, 677, 687, 765, 778, 797, 816, 820, 826, 850, 861, 889
  • B–70, 381–382
  • Budgets, government, 339
  • Chemical and biological weapons, 386
  • Fallout from nuclear war, 400
  • Missile systems, 31
    • Anti-intercontinental ballistic, 490–491
    • Atlas, 356, 428
    • Coolidge’s report, 809–810
    • Arms control and disarmament policy and, 812–814, 855, 860
    • Minuteman, 389, 405–406
    • Reaction time, 374
    • Soviet Union, 172–173, 357, 366
    • Titan, 335
  • Nuclear weapons testing:
    • Detection systems, 784
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 792–794, 853
    • Inspection zones, 689
    • Limited agreements, 768
    • One-point safety testing, 795
    • Outline of a series of U.S. tests, 760
    • Panel on Seismic Improvement, 772
    • Threshold concept, 823–824, 827, 829–830
  • Research and development, 336
  • Satellites, 410–413, 453
  • Soviet Union, 268
  • Targeting concepts, 491–493
• Knight, Robert H., 820, 825, 827, 830
• Kohler, Foy, 609, 850, 864
• Korea, 29, 63, 88–89, 110, 122, 146, 152, 481, 485–489, 529, 551
• Korean war, 241
• Kuwait, 232
• Land, Dr. Edwin H., 458, 612
• Lanphier, Col. Thomas G., 137–138
• Laos, 89, 432, 485
• Latin America, 302, 365, 432, 480
• Latter, Richard, 696, 880
• Lawrence, E. O., 611
• Lawrence, John H., 537, 604, 611
• Lay, James S., Jr., 58, 99, 125n, 208, 324, 459–460, 514
• Lebanon, 129, 146
• Le Boutillier, Philip, Jr., 479, 480
• Lehrer, Max, 156, 167
• LeMay, Gen. Curtis E., 402–403, 423
• Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., 216, 230, 253, 285, 334, 386, 461, 463, 479, 480, 483, 484, 500–502, 509, 517, 518, 521
• Libby, Willard F., 611, 621, 650n, 651, 662, 664–665, 673
• Libya, 46, 477, 478
• Lincoln, Col., 754
• Ling, Donald P., 855–860
• Lloyd, John S. B., 699–700, 719–728, 742–744, 766, 772, 826, 833, 834, 845, 848, 867, 869, 872, 874–878, 883
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, 766, 767
• Long, Franklin A., 405–406
• Loper, Gen. Herbert B., 218, 575n, 610, 686, 748, 749, 765, 768, 778, 789, 816, 820, 821, 823, 825, 827, 830–831
• Lovett, Robert, 555, 604, 698
• Lucet, Charles, 867
• Luxembourg, 11
• Macauley, John B., 461
• Macmillan, Harold, 595, 621, 650, 685, 699–700, 709–710, 715, 719–728, 730, 733–734, 772–773, 784, 789–791, 831, 864–866, 891n, 904
• Mahon, Geroge H., 334, 338
• Malinovsky, Rodion Y., 367
• Manpower programs, 115–116, 315, 559–560
• Marines, U.S., 230, 242, 341, 344
• Mark, Dr., 634, 777
• Martin, Graham, 258
• Martin Company, 335, 361
• Massive retaliation. See under Nuclear weapons.
• Mathews, Elbert G., 127n
• Mau, Frank A., 882
• McCloy, John J., 555, 590, 595, 596, 604, 699, 754
• McCone, John A., 262, 263, 371, 621, 631, 638, 684, 692, 696, 720, 748, 751, 765, 778, 816, 820, 825, 850, 889, 891
  • Arms control and disarmament policy:
    • Assessments, 755–757, 879–880
    • Fissionable material, 838–840, 886–888
    • Gnome Project, 846–847
    • Macmillan, meeting with, 789–791
    • Nuclear test suspensions separated from, 881
    • Soviet Union, 892
    • Underground/water explosions, 849
  • Atomic energy program, 672–674
  • Missile systems, 358, 373
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 402
  • Nuclear weapons, 403, 467
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 634–638, 639, 645, 658–659
    • Control posts, 686
    • Dulles, John Foster, recommendations of, 625–626, 629
    • Eisenhower’s recommendations, 648, 649–650
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 704, 737–740, 779–789, 792–796, 798–801, 851–853, 897, 899–900
    • Moratorium provisions, 769, 861–862
    • Options, weighing of, 753
    • Panel on Seismic Improvement, 693–696, 749–750, 752
    • Soviet Union, 675
    • Threshold concept, 821–831, 833, 835–836
    • Underground/under water explosions, 697
    • U.S.–U.K. relations and, 768, 901–904
  • Retaliatory capacity, 372
  • Space programs, 331
  • Submarines, 330
• McElroy, Neil H., 57, 62, 120n, 125n, 218, 408n, 567, 683
  • Air defense and military organization, 214
  • China, People’s Republic of, 194
  • Communist Bloc/communism, 195–196
  • Congress, U.S., 173
  • Continental defense, 34, 35–37
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 145–147, 152, 153–155, 158–159, 162–166, 170
  • Defense Department 1961 budget, 331–339, 342–351
  • Fallout shelter program, 15
  • Limited military operations, 80–81, 90, 121–123, 129–130
  • Massive retaliation, 62
  • Missile systems, 30, 42, 71, 74, 211–212, 319–322, 324, 354n
  • Moon shot, 134
  • Basic National Security Policy:
    • Eisenhower–Gray meeting, 236
    • Humanitarian activities of Armed Forces, 251
    • Limited military operations, 229–234
    • Local aggression, 247, 286–287
    • Military capabilities, 340–341
    • Missile systems, 251–252
    • Mobilization Base, 273
    • Newly independent countries, 264, 265
    • Nuclear weapons, 224, 239–240, 245–246, 263, 284–285, 289
    • Space programs, 280–282
    • State Department, divisions within, 248
  • Nuclear weapons, 146, 261
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 536, 572, 657, 684
  • Soviet Union, 55, 138, 175, 180, 190
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 7
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 204, 205
• McGrath, Paul, 561
• McGuire, Perkins, 416–418
• McMillan, Dr., 185
• McRae, James W., 784n
• Merchant, Livingston T., 461, 463, 480, 481, 714, 715, 716, 820, 822, 825–828, 830, 850, 867, 874, 875, 902
• Midas. see Reconnaissance satellites.
• Middle East, 54, 365
• Military Air Transport Service (MATS), 349–350, 369, 530–531
• Military Logistics Planning Base, 312–313, 416–419.
• Millar, Sir Frederick Hoyer, 720, 725, 874
• Miller, Herbert, 609
• Mills, Dr., 604
• Minshull, W. H., Jr., 669
• Missile systems:
  • Air defense and military organization, 213–214, 328
  • Air-to-surface, 329
  • Anti-intercontinental ballistic, 212, 490–491, 516–518, 526, 527, 568, 582, 604
  • Arms control and disarmament policy and, 807, 812–815, 855–860
  • Atlas, 133, 135, 138, 157, 159, 162, 212, 335, 353–354, 356, 374, 390, 400, 423, 425, 426, 428
  • Ballistic missiles, see individual names
  • Basic National Security Policy and, 251–252, 254
  • BOMARC, 217
  • Coolidge’s report, 809–810
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 156–159
  • Defense Department 1961 budget, 335–336, 345, 347–348
  • Defensive, 626
  • Eisenhower’s doubts about, 162–163
  • Gaither Report, 6, 40–42, 71–78
  • Hardening bases, 359
  • Hound Dog, 357, 374, 402, 497
  • Initial operating capability, 75
  • Jupiter, 71, 132, 156–157, 212, 319
  • Mace, 74–75
  • Minuteman, 211–212, 320, 324, 345, 357, 372–373, 387, 389–391, 400, 405–406, 423.
  • Mobility concerns, 356
  • National Security Council, annual briefing to, 30–31
  • Naval–launched, 329
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 400–402
  • Nike–Zeus, 41, 217, 254, 337, 345, 348, 360, 470, 514–515
  • Polaris, 5, 30, 40–42, 133–134, 157, 162, 168, 212, 320, 322, 330, 337, 345, 353–354, 356, 357, 373, 387–388, 390–391, 394–397, 400–401, 407–408, 426, 427, 462, 478, 626
  • Prioritizing systems, 319–323, 392
  • Propellants, liquid/solid, 31, 74, 212, 213
  • Reaction time, 374
  • Regulus, 74–75
  • SAGE, 217
  • Science Advisory Committee, 184–187
  • Second-generation missiles, 73
  • Skybolt program, 497–498
  • Soviet Union:
    • Hostile intent, evaluation of, 857
    • Initial operational capability, 404–405
    • Military capabilities, evaluation of, 25, 31–32, 69, 135–139, 185–186, 317–320, 325–330, 357–359, 366–367, 375–380, 437–441, 689–690
    • Serialized production, 179–180
    • Surrounded by intermediate–range missiles, 46
  • Space program, 211–213, 329–330
  • Surface–to–surface ballistic missiles, 327–328
  • Talos, 41
  • Thor, 71, 132, 156–157, 212, 319
  • Titan, 31, 71–72, 133–134, 138, 157, 158–159, 162, 212, 324, 335, 353–356, 360–361, 374, 387, 425
  • U.S. position, 217
  • Warheads, 408, 581–583
• Mobilization Base, 114–115, 171–172, 273, 275, 276, 312–313, 324–325, 419n, 531–532
• Moon shot, 134
• Moos, Malcolm C., 909
• Morgan, George A., 461n
• Morocco, 46, 477, 478
• Morris, Donald R., 662, 692, 765, 777
• Morse, Capt. John H., 662
• Mueller, Frederick H., 220, 272
• Murphy, Robert D., 714, 716, 720
• Nash, Frank C., 45, 48
• Nash Report, 44–49
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 255, 274, 280, 281–283, 314
• National Aeronautics and Space Council, 211–212, 273–274, 276, 279–280
• National Guard, 333–334, 344, 426, 479, 500–502
• National Intelligence Estimates (see also Special National Intelligence Estimates):
  • NIE 11–4–51, 180
  • NIE 11–4–58, 180, 188, 220, 238, 259, 271, 277
  • NIE 11–4–59, 354, 359, 362n
  • NIE 11–5–58, 135–136, 326
  • NIE 11–5–59, 325–330, 404, 516
  • NIE 11–5–60, 404
  • NIE 11–7–60, 466
  • NIE 11–8–59, 354, 355, 359, 362n, 375–380
  • NIE 11–8–60, 437–441, 466, 516
  • NIE 11–60, 466
  • NIE 13–2–59, 188
  • NIE 100–2–58, 615
  • NIE 100–58, 51–56, 79, 98
  • NIE 100–59, 188–190, 220, 238, 259, 271, 277
  • NIE 100–60, 362–366, 370–375
• National Security Council (NSC) (see also Basic National Security Policy):
  • Actions:
    • No. 1077, 173, 191, 202
    • No. 1102, 173, 191, 202
    • No. 1260, 147, 398
    • No. 1330, 147, 398
    • No. 1419, 533
    • No. 1430, 147, 398
    • No. 1463, 398
    • No. 1513, 533
    • No. 1532, 147, 398
    • No. 1553, 533
    • No. 1574, 32
    • No. 1587, 270
    • No. 1641, 147, 398
    • No. 1676, 533
    • No. 1722, 533
    • No. 1781, 32, 39
    • No. 1814, 4, 26, 32, 40, 70, 119
    • No. 1815, 32, 147, 398
    • No. 1840, 544n, 563, 565, 585, 589, 811, 855
    • No. 1841, 21, 26, 32, 40, 70
    • No. 1842, 26, 29, 32, 40, 43, 70, 77, 466
    • No. 1846, 30n, 132, 213, 319, 353–354, 392
    • No. 1850, 31
    • No. 1866, 70, 77
    • No. 1876, 477
    • No. 1881, 119
    • No. 1888, 811
    • No. 1903, 98, 119, 125, 128, 130, 131
    • No. 1908, 119
    • No. 1916, 118n
    • No. 1934, 125, 128, 129, 130, 483
    • No. 1938 118
    • No. 1941, 24, 132, 319
    • No. 1956, 319
    • No. 1994, 139, 153, 342
    • No. 2000, 153, 342
    • No. 2009, 151n, 385, 398
    • No. 2013, 319, 342, 353–354
    • No. 2019, 419
    • No. 2034, 477
    • No. 2039, 202, 208
    • No. 2056, 202, 208
    • No. 2057, 208, 392–393
    • No. 2070, 477
    • No. 2079, 220, 238, 259, 271, 277
    • No. 2081, 319, 323, 353–354, 392
    • No. 2103, 238, 259, 271, 277, 290
    • No. 2105, 259, 271, 277, 290
    • No. 2108, 271, 277, 290
    • No. 2110, 277, 290
    • No. 2118, 353–354, 389, 392
    • No. 2131, 324, 325
    • No. 2142, 477
    • No. 2151, 466, 516
    • No. 2155, 352
    • No. 2161, 855
    • No. 2166, 477
    • No. 2168, 354n
    • No. 2182, 368n
    • No. 2183, 375n
    • No. 2208, 392n
    • No. 2221, 393n
    • No. 2238, 897
    • No. 2245, 415n
    • No. 2254, 529
    • No. 2272, 432n
    • No. 2289, 452
    • No. 2309, 191
    • No. 2315, 478
    • No. 2316, 483n
    • No. 2317, 509
    • No. 2363, 532
    • No. 2386, 527n
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 619–620, 745–746, 836–845
  • Bethe Panel, 575–589
  • Continental defense, 471–473
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 167–168
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 351–352
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 508
  • Documents (see also Basic National Security Policy under other subjects:
    • NSC 112, 804
    • NSC 5408, 33, 39
    • NSC 5410/1, 150, 152, 173, 174, 178, 191, 202, 208
    • NSC 5606, 32
    • NSC 5707/8, 32, 84, 97, 98
    • NSC 5708/8, 533
    • NSC 5724, 4, 21, 24, 26, 40, 44, 70, 119, 120n
    • NSC 5724/1, 4, 21, 24, 26, 40, 43, 70, 119
    • NSC 5725/1, 615
    • NSC 5728, 119
    • NSC 5801/1, 129
    • NSC 5802, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39
    • NSC 5802/1, 39, 352, 466, 513, 516
    • NSC 5807, 516
    • NSC 5807/2, 516
    • NSC 5810, 79, 80, 83, 84, 87–89, 96, 98, 146
    • NSC 5810/1, 97, 98–116, 119, 125, 127–128, 130, 131, 173, 191, 202, 208, 220, 221, 237n, 243, 273, 277, 290
    • NSC 5814/1, 273, 279, 280
    • NSC 5815, 119
    • NSC 5816, 119, 147, 398, 404
    • NSC 5819, 498
    • NSC 5904, 191, 200, 201, 202–210
    • NSC 5904/1, 393
    • NSC 5906, 220, 237n, 238, 252, 259, 268, 270, 271, 274, 276, 277, 290
    • NSC 5906/1, 290, 292–295, 324, 352, 353, 370, 393n, 419, 452, 529
    • NSC 5912, 339, 342, 498
    • NSC 5919, 369
    • NSC 6019, 532
    • NSC 6019/1, 532
    • NSC 6021, 513
    • NSC 6022, 524, 526–527
    • NSC 6022/1, 516, 527n
    • NSC 6027, 532
    • NSC 6104/1, 528n
    • NSC 6104/2, 528n
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 118
  • Focus at meetings, 58, 61
  • Limited military operations, 124, 130–131, 489–490
  • Meetings:
    • 350th, 4–9, 533–547
    • 351st, 10–26
    • 352d, 26–30
    • 353d, 30–31
    • 355th, 32–40
    • 356th, 40–44
    • 358th, 44–49
    • 359th, 51–56
    • 360th, 56
    • 361st, 59, 585–589
    • 362d, 69
    • 363d, 70–78
    • 364th, 79–97, 98, 131
    • 370th, 119–124, 613–615
    • 373d, 128–131
    • 375th, 132–135
    • 378th, 135, 654–657
    • 382d, 671–672
    • 383d, 672–674
    • 384th, 139–145, 675–676
    • 387th, 147–152
    • 392d, 680–682
    • 394th, 173–179
    • 398th, 188–201
    • 399th, 202–207
    • 406th, 210–213
    • 407th, 744
    • 411th, 220–227
    • 412th, 238–253
    • 413th, 259–270
    • 414th, 271–277
    • 415th, 277–291
    • 417th, 319–323
    • 425th, 339–352
    • 426th, 804–811
    • 428th, 811–816
    • 430th, 353–359
    • 433d, 366–369
    • 434th, 370–375
    • 435th, 386
    • 438th, 855–856
    • 439th, 388–392
    • 442d, 397–404
    • 443d, 407
    • 445th, 409–412, 880–881
    • 448th, 416–419
    • 449th, 416–419
    • 453d, 425–433
    • 455th, 897–901
    • 458th, 465
    • 459th, 466–473
    • 461st, 476–478
    • 462d, 482–490
    • 469th, 494–508
    • 471st, 516–528
    • 472d, 532
  • Military programs, status of, 498
  • Military readiness, 432–433
  • Missile systems, 135, 212–213, 322–323, 391–392, 490–491
  • Mobilization base, 171–172
  • Reconnaissance satellite program, 452–453, 459–460
• National Strategic Target Planning Staff, 447n
• Navy, U.S., 286, 362n
  • Aircraft carriers, 157–158, 346
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 334, 337–338
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 462, 499, 505–506
  • Increasing facilities, 146
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff, disputes with, 407–408
  • Limited military operations, 230
  • Missile systems, 5, 134, 329, 361n, 395–396, 397
  • Personnel reductions, 344
  • Targeting concepts, 420–421
• Nehru, Jawaharlal, 226
• Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 147–152, 397–404, 407
• Neutralism, 226
• Newly independent countries, 264, 265
• Nixon, Richard M., 216, 889, 892
  • Airborne alert, 373–374
  • Air Force, U.S., 403
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 810, 814, 815
  • China, People’s Republic of, 195
  • Continental defense, 35–37
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 164–165
  • Defense Department 1961 budget, 348
  • Fallout shelter program, 16, 19–20
  • Gaither Report, 8
  • Khrushchev, communications with, 318
  • Missile systems, 359
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 543, 898, 900–901
  • Research and development, 893
  • Soviet Union, 368
  • Strategic Air Command, 357
• Norstad, Gen. Lauris C., 25, 143, 166, 242, 464, 494, 609, 806, 807
• North American Air Defense Command, 467
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 364, 606
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 551
  • Communist Bloc/communism, 302
  • Countervailing tendencies, 189
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 464
  • Fallout shelter program, 12, 16
  • France, 142
  • Limited military operations, 84, 88, 130
  • Local aggression, 286–287
  • Missile systems, 75
  • National security policy, U.S., 103, 105, 234, 297
  • Nuclear weapons, 288
  • Targeting concepts, 450–451
  • U.S. troop reduction, 141–142, 166
• Northrup, Doyle, 575n, 821
• Norway, 11
• Novikov, K. V., 779
• Nuclear weapons (see also Arms control and disarmament; Nuclear weapons testing):
  • Authorization to use, 353
  • Basic National Security Policy, 102, 126, 127
    • Allies, enhancing capabilities of, 262, 288–289, 298
    • Committing to using, 234–235
    • Deterrent power, 224
    • Integration of conventional weapons, 238–246, 258–259
    • Limited military operations, 229–234
    • Presidential authorization, 284–286
    • Research and development, 262–263
    • Retarding countries from acquiring/developing, 260–262
    • Soviet Union, 221–224
  • China, People’s Republic of, 488
  • Civil defense program, 113
  • Delivery systems, 884–885, 887
  • Deterrence vs. superiority, 145n, 146
  • Eisenhower’s views, 183–184
  • Fallout shelter program, 519–527, 563n
  • Limited military operations vs. nuclear conflict, 80–90, 121, 124, 434, 484–486
  • Massive retaliation concept, 49–51, 62–68, 218–219
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 403
  • Peaceful use of atomic energy, 314
  • Plutonium/uranium requirements, 673
  • Recovery from nuclear assault, 196–197
  • Stockpiling strategy, 524–526
  • Targeting concepts, 385n
  • Unilateral service planning, 467
  • U.K. reliance on, 86
  • U.S. pressure on allies to accept need for use, 95
• Nuclear weapons testing (see also Arms control and disarmament policy; Missile systems; Nuclear weapons), 408, 686, 718
  • Above vs. below ground, 634–635
  • Ad Hoc Panel on Nuclear Test Requirements, 784
  • Ad Hoc Working Group on the Technical Feasibility of a Cessation of Nuclear Testing, see Bethe Panel below
  • AEC position, 270, 545, 564, 622, 645, 658–659, 693, 697, 750, 781, 834
  • Ballistic missile testing, monitored agreement to stop, 855–860
  • Bethe Panel, 575–589
  • Basic National Security Policy, 544–545, 585–589
  • China, People’s Republic of, 488, 575–581, 633, 639, 648, 740
  • Clean vs. dirty, 561–563, 573–574, 583–584
  • Detection systems, 577–581, 586–588, 655, 682–684, 687, 721–722, 761–762, 784
  • Dulles, John Foster, recommendations of, 604–606, 624–630, 651–653
  • Eisenhower–Dulles, John Foster meeting, 616–617, 676–677
  • Foreign Ministers conference discussion, 742–745
  • Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests:
    • AEC position, 696–697, 879–880
    • Breakdown of, 706–707, 712–717
    • Eisenhower–Macmillan discussions, 725–728, 832, 864–866
    • Forum for resumption of, 745–748
    • Indian U.N. resolution, 794
    • McCone’s report, 755–756
    • NSC discussion, 897–904
    • Soviet Union and, 655–656, 657, 680–681, 763–764, 772, 779–781, 793, 795–798, 897–898
    • State Department position, 729
    • U.K. position, 713–714, 725–728, 763–764, 767–768, 783–784, 789–791
    • U.S. position, 631–632, 660–665, 700–707, 710–715, 729–732, 737–742, 765–772, 777–789, 792–803, 816–831, 850–854, 880, 897–901, 911
    • U.S. post-summit position, 880–881
    • U.S. tactics at, 700–702, 707–708, 730–732, 748–753
    • U.S. testing and, 759–763
    • U.S–U.K. discussions, 699–700, 765–766
  • Geneva Technical Conferences on Nuclear Testing:
    • 1958, 631–636, 654–657
    • 1959, 792–794, 797–803
    • 1960, 880
    • Soviet proposal for ban on testing, 848–854, 861–863
    • Termination by Soviets, U.S. concerns, 889–893
  • Gray–Dulles, John Foster meeting, 669
  • Gromyko–Lloyd–Herter meeting, 742–744
  • Inspection zones, 534, 535, 539, 541, 542, 548–549, 593–594, 599–600, 617–618, 685, 689, 716–717, 721, 753
  • Joints Chiefs of Staff, 555–557
  • Khrushchev–Eisenhower communications, 589–590, 730, 745, 761
  • Killian–Dulles, John Foster meeting, 607–608
  • Linkage of test ban with general disarmament, 683–687, 710–712
  • Macmillan–Eisenhower communications, 709–710
  • Macmillan–Eisenhower meeting, 719–728, 772–773
  • Moratorium provisions (Macmillan proposal), 733–734, 767, 770–771, 796, 833, 848, 861–863, 897
  • One-point safety testing, 795
  • Outline of a series of U.S. tests, 759–760
  • Panel on High Altitude Detection, 748–754
  • Panel on Seismic Improvement, 692–696, 697, 748–754
  • Quarles’ recommendations, 563–566
  • Science Advisory Committee, 542, 545–547, 597–599, 603–604, 612–613
  • Soviet Union (see also under Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests above), 613–615, 758n
    • AEC position, 786–787
    • Bethe Panel, 575–584
    • Dulles, Allen, assessments of, 671–672, 675–677
    • Eisenhower–Dulles, John Foster meeting, 676–677
    • Eisenhower–Khrushchev communications, 730, 777
    • Foreign Ministers conference, 744
    • Herter–Lloyd–Gromyko meeting, 742–744
    • Herter’s assessments, 758n
    • Improving, 566
    • Inspection zones, 534, 548–549, 599
    • Khrushchev’s public statements, 574
    • Suspending, 567–568
    • Tests, 675–677
    • Threshold concept, 828–829
    • Ultimatum to U.S., 413–415
    • U.S. position, 595–596, 609–612, 632–638, 654
  • Stassen’s proposals, 533–544, 547–551
  • Strauss–Dulles meeting, 608–609
  • Strauss’ proposals, 551–553
  • Summit discussion, 777
  • Threshold concept, 642–643, 820–831, 833–836
  • Underground/under water explosions, 577, 578, 779–780
  • United Kingdom and (see also U.K. subheadings under Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests above), 699–700
    • Dulles, John Foster–Macmillan meeting, 699–700
    • Eisenhower–Macmillan meeting, 714–728, 772–773
    • Elections, national, 765–766, 768
    • Gromyko–Herter–Lloyd meeting, 713–714, 783–784
    • Joint U.S.–U.K. Technical Group To Review Technical Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Test Detection, 765n
    • Macmillan’s proposal, 733–734
    • Soviet Union and, 763–764
    • Threshold concept, 822, 826, 834–836
    • U.S.–U.K. relations, 591–592, 650–651, 864–866, 874–878, 901–904
  • U.S. position (see also under Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests above):
    • China, People’s Republic of, 639
    • Disarmament advisers, 590–597
    • Dulles, John Foster, recommendations of, 624–630
    • Eisenhower’s recommendations, 630, 647–651
    • Phasing the suspension, 640–641, 644–646
    • Presidential statement, redrafting, 643
    • Research and development, 623n
    • Soviet Union, 595–596, 609–612, 632–637, 654
    • Suspension, discussion of, 568–572, 654
    • Technical Working Group, 802–803
    • Threshold concept, 642
  • U.S. tests, 658–659, 759–760
• Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM), 1n, 4, 10, 12, 70
• Offshore Islands, 481, 485–489
• O’Neill, C.D.W., 720, 864, 876, 878
• Operations Coordinating Board, 573
• Organization of American States, 47, 240
• Outer space. see Satellites; Space programs.
• Overhage, Dr. Carl F.J., 458
• Overseas bases/personnel, 45–49, 254, 268–270, 341–342, 477–478
• Owen, Henry D., 557n
• Pakistan, 477
• Panel on High Altitude Detection, 748–754
• Panel on Satellite Reconnaissance, 453–458
• Panel on Seismic Improvement, 692–696, 697, 748–754
• Panofsky, Wolfgang K.H., 748n, 751
• Panofsky panel. see Panel on High Altitude Detection
• Parker vs. Lester, 1955 (Executive Order 10173), 39
• Pate, Gen. Randolph M., 62
• Penney, William, 727
• Persons, Gen. Wilton B., 171, 181, 217, 333, 334, 336, 338, 411, 751, 889, 900, 911
• Pickering, William H., 696
• Piore, Emanuel R., 612
• Plowden, Edwin N., 789
• Poland, 551, 594, 614, 617n, 774
• Polk, James H., 479, 482
• Popper, David H., 777
• Population issues, 226
• Positive Control concept (Fail Safe), 59–60, 117–118
• Power, Gen. Thomas S., 59, 60, 181, 408n, 423
• Powers, Francis Gary, 901
• Propellants, liquid/solid, 31, 74, 212, 213
• Publicity and defense posture, 181–183
• Pugh, George E., 219n
• Purcell, Edward M., 183, 458, 612
• Quarles, Donald A., 62, 567, 604, 606, 631, 638, 644, 720
  • Continental defense, 34–35
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 157
  • Demonstration of U.S. interests, 27
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 60, 117–118
  • Limited military operations, 81
  • Massive retaliation concept, 64
  • Missile systems, 72–73, 75–76, 186
  • National security policy, 141–143
  • Nuclear weapons, 146
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 563–566, 571, 629–630, 631–632, 634–638, 639, 648, 650, 680, 738, 821, 826:
  • Radar early warning system, 76
  • Strategic Air Command, 42, 76–77
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 5–6
• Quesada, Gen., 350
• Rabi, Isidor I., 541, 546, 611, 612, 684–685
• Radar early warning system, 76
• Radford, Adm. Arthur M., 228, 230–232, 234, 235, 246, 253, 254, 256–257
• Randall, Clarence B., 91–92, 267, 333
• Rand report, 875, 880
• Rathjens, Dr. George, 491
• Reconnaissance satellites, 211–213, 280, 360, 409–414, 442, 452–460, 502–504, 909
• Reinhardt, G. Frederick, 145n, 601n, 609, 716, 720, 725
• Republican National Convention, 431
• Research and development, 116, 262–263, 299–300, 315–316, 336, 337, 341, 386, 499, 623n, 893
• Rhea, Col. Fred, 601n, 692, 694
• Rich, Robert, 692
• Roberts, Chalmers, 8
• Robertson, Walter, 487, 612, 687
• Rockefeller, Nelson, 892
• Rogers, William P., 245
• Romania, 617n, 774
• Romney, Dr., 821
• Rothwell, Col. Richard, 399
• Rubel, John H., 466, 469, 470
• Rumbold, Sir Anthony, 720
• Russell, Richard B., 334, 408n
• Samos. see Reconnaissance satellites.
• Samuel, A. C. I., 874
• Satellites, 3, 69, 211–213, 280, 351, 372, 409–414, 442, 452–460, 502–504, 909
• Saudi Arabia, 477, 478
• Saulnier, Raymond J., 18, 271–272
• Savage, Carlton, 2
• Science Advisory Committee, 184–187, 270, 542, 544–547, 597–599, 603–604, 612–613, 855–861
• Scoville, Herbert E., 407, 491, 546, 575n, 610–612, 692, 778, 788, 824–825, 850
• Scribner, Fred C., Jr., 17, 19, 224, 265, 374, 518, 523, 524
• Segni, Antonio, 867, 869, 870
• Sharp, Dudley C., 461, 463, 506
• Shelter program (see also Civil defense), 10–23, 56, 470, 519–527, 563n
• Shoup, David M., 461, 480
• Sides, Adm. John H., 144, 164, 218
• Silverstein, Abe, 696
• Smith, Col., 825
• Smith, Bromley, 56, 235, 324–325, 341n, 631, 638, 644n, 692, 705
• Smith, Gerald C., 1, 3, 254, 479, 513–516, 557n, 609, 702, 882, 909, 910
• Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell, 554, 590, 596, 604, 699
• Smith, Gen. Willard W., 148
• Southern Canadian Early Warning Line, 33
• Southern hemisphere and nuclear weapons testing, 579
• Soviet Union (see also Khrushchev, Nikita S.), 291, 422, 551
  • Arms control and disarmament policy:
    • Fissionable material, 886
    • Foreign Ministers meeting, 868
    • Hostile intent, evaluating, 808–809, 892–893
    • McCone’s assessments, 755–756
    • Outdated devices, 889–890
    • Reciprocal scheme, 890–891
    • Soviet proposal, 848, 849
    • Summit meeting, 757–759, 774–777
    • Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament meeting, 895–896
    • U.S. position, 590–597, 817–819
  • Basic National Security Policy, 100–101, 111, 221–224, 291
  • Continental defense, 513–516
  • Economic competition with U.S., 55, 94–95
  • Fallout shelter program, 10, 470
  • Hostile intent, evaluating, 7–9, 141, 144, 145, 148–151, 172–179, 191–193, 268, 291, 293–294
  • Intelligence activities, 503–504
  • Limited military operations, 129–130, 242, 484–485
  • Militant line adopted by, 422–424
  • Military capabilities, 1–3, 118–119, 188–189, 190, 215–216, 317–319, 354–359, 367–368, 375–380
  • Missile systems:
    • Hostile intent, evaluating, 172, 857
    • Initial operational capability, 404–405
    • Military capabilities, evaluation of, 25, 31–32, 69, 135–139, 185–186, 317–320, 325–330, 357–359, 366–367, 375–380, 437–441, 689–690
    • Serialized production, 179–180
    • Surrounded by intermediate–range ballistic missiles, 46
  • Negotiations with, 309
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 398–404
  • NIE 100–58 and 100–60 on, 53–55, 362–364, 370–372
  • Nuclear weapons, 221–224
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 613–615, 758n
    • AEC position, 786–787
    • Bethe Panel, 575–584
    • Dulles, Allen, assessments of, 671–672, 675–676
    • Eisenhower–Dulles, John Foster meeting, 676–677
    • Eisenhower–Khrushchev communications, 730
    • Foreign Ministers conference, 744
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 632, 655–656, 657, 680–681, 763–764, 772, 779–781, 793, 795–798, 897–898
    • Herter–Lloyd–Gromyko meeting, 742–744
    • Herter’s assessments, 758n
    • Improving, 566
    • Inspection zones, 534, 548–549, 599
    • Khrushchev’s public statements, 574
    • Suspending, 567–568
    • Threshold concept, 828–829
    • Ultimatum to U.S., 413–415
    • U.S. position, 595–596, 609–612, 632–638, 654
  • Satellites, 454
  • Space programs, 278–279, 595
  • Sputnik, 3, 351, 372
  • Submarines, 337
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 4–9
  • U–2 incident, 410
  • U.S. fliers held, 910
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 202–204, 208–209, 393
• Space programs, 211–213, 255, 273–284, 314–315, 329–331, 360, 414–415, 502–503, 541, 559, 594–596
• Spain, 46
• Special National Intelligence Estimates (see also National Intelligence Estimates):
  • SNIE 11–7–57, 580
  • SNIE 100–6–60, 442
  • SNIE 100–7–58, 128, 130
• Spiers, Ronald I., 557n, 590, 609, 662, 665, 692, 696, 777, 792, 850, 874, 882
• Sprague, Mansfield, 754
• Sprague, Robert, 1, 3, 49n, 62, 349, 554
• Sputnik, 3, 351, 372
• Staats, Elmer B., 409
• Stans, Maurice H., 17, 94, 161, 167, 171, 216, 249, 266, 272, 274, 279, 280, 281, 322, 335, 338, 350, 389, 507, 519, 521–523, 525, 900
• Starbird, Gen. Alfred, 218, 575n, 610, 627, 631, 638, 644, 651, 662, 748, 751, 765, 770, 778, 781, 788–789, 820, 824, 827, 831, 847, 850, 888
• Stassen, Harold E., 20, 25, 533–544, 547–551, 571, 805
• Stewart, Col. Charles, 218
• Stockpiling strategy, 313–314, 352–353, 467, 524–526
• Straneo, Carlo, 867
• Strategic Air Command, 24, 357
  • Airborne alert, 402, 423
  • Congress, U.S., 181–182
  • Defense Department, 1960 budget, 163–164
  • Defense Department 1961 budget, 344–345
  • Fail Safe (Positive Control concept), 59–60, 117–118
  • Gaither Report, 42–44, 76–77
  • Targeting concepts, 322, 420–421, 451
• Strauss, Adm. Lewis L., 15–16, 25, 49n, 57, 62, 551–553, 567, 569, 572n, 606, 608–609, 615
• Submarines, 5, 30, 77, 133, 320, 330, 337, 394–396, 427, 478
• Sullivan, Charles, 765, 771, 772, 882
• Surprise attack, 4–9, 666–669, 674–675, 677–679, 680–681, 687, 690–691, 715–716
• Sweden, 11
• Symington, W. Stuart, 137–138, 181, 409
• Syria, 129, 375
• Taiwan, 90–91, 120, 122, 229, 487
• Tanks, 497
• Targeting concepts, 322, 383–385, 408, 420–421, 442–451, 482–483, 491–493
• Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., 45–46, 62, 64, 82–83, 228, 557
• Teller, Edward, 537, 604, 621, 662–664, 676, 696
• Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament meeting, Geneva (see also Arms control and disarmament policy), 832–833, 836–846, 867–872, 880–888, 894–896
• Thailand, 432
• Thomas, Gen. Gerald C., 147–149, 151
• Thompson, Llewellyn E., 537, 620
• Thomson, J. A., 874
• Threshold concept (see also Nuclear weapons testing), 642–643, 820–831, 833–836
• Toon, Malcolm S., 882
• Trade, international, 93, 267–268
• Treasury Department, U.S., 39
• Triebel, Adm., 120–123, 256
• Tsarapkin, Semen K., 755–756, 798, 848n
• Tunisia, 46
• Turkey, 11, 143, 232
• Twining, Gen. Nathan F., 333, 385, 393n, 397, 412n, 442, 461, 567, 684, 720, 816, 909
  • Aircraft, 348–349
  • Air Force-Navy disputes, 407–408
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 685–686, 839–840, 906–908
  • Basic National Security Policy, 139–140, 238–239
  • China, People’s Republic of, 90–91, 193–194, 195
  • Congress, U.S., 173
  • Defense Department 1960 budget, 154–156
  • Defense Department 1962 budget, 463
  • Fallout shelter program, 16
  • Incapacitating agents, 386
  • Limited military operations, 27, 81–86, 90, 121, 123, 130, 165–166, 199, 200
  • Massive retaliation concept, 63, 64
  • Military capabilities, reviewing, 339–341
  • Missile systems, 187, 357, 395
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee, 398–402, 407
  • Nuclear weapons, 285
  • Nuclear weapons testing, 408, 570
  • Publicity and defense posture, 181–183
  • Soviet Union, 25, 150, 177, 178, 358
  • Surprise attack policy considerations, 7
  • Targeting concepts, 444–448
  • War, U.S. policy in event of, 206
• U–2 incident, 410
• U.N. Disarmament Comission, 599–600, 745–748
• Underdeveloped countries, 91, 106–108, 189–190, 246–247, 266–269, 305–306, 364–365
• United Arab Republic, 120
• United Kingdom, 46, 91, 551, 598, 610, 617n
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 762, 789–791, 848, 891
  • Atomic Energy Act, 1954, 606
  • Germany, soldiers stationed in, 142
  • Nuclear weapons, 86
  • Nuclear weapons testing:
    • Dulles, John Foster–Macmillan meeting, 699–700
    • Eisenhower–Macmillan meeting, 719–728, 772–773
    • Elections, national, and, 765–766, 768
    • Geneva Nuclear Test Negotiations, 713–714, 783–784
    • Gromyko–Herter–Lloyd meeting, 713–714, 742–744, 783–784
    • Macmillan’s proposal, 733–734
    • Soviet Union and, 763–764
    • Threshold concept, 822, 826, 834–836
    • U.S.–U.K. relations, 591–592, 650–651, 864–866, 874–878, 901–904
• United Nations, 90–91, 108–109, 301, 549–550
  • Arms control and disarmament policy, 599–600, 627, 747, 806, 868, 895–896, 910, 912
  • Khrushchev’s attempts to hinder, 480
• U.S. Information Agency, 250
• U.S. Intelligence Board, 454
• Vandenberg, Arthur H., 2–3
• Vietnam, 110, 484
• Vinson, Carl, 334
• Voice of America, 399
• Wadsworth, James J., 590, 601n, 609, 660–662, 681, 766, 767, 777, 783, 797, 816–818, 831, 874, 876–878, 891
• Walmsley, Walter N., 557n
• War, general, 228, 244, 285
• War, U.S. policy in event of, 202–210, 392–393
• Washburn, Abbott, 283–284
• Waterman, Alan T., 612
• Weiler, Lawrence D., 590
• Weiss, Paul A., 612
• Weyland, Gen. Otto P., 677
• White, Gen. Thomas D., 59n, 64, 83, 163–164, 216, 223–224, 253, 349, 366, 393n, 408n, 423, 461, 464, 480, 497, 503
• Whitney, John Hay, 716, 720, 725, 789
• Whitson, William L., 696
• Wiesner, Jerome B., 597, 612, 629
• Wilcox, Francis O., 599, 745–748
• Williams, Haydn, 228, 256, 479
• Wilson, Charles E., 213–214, 236
• Wolfe, Col. Yale H., 399
• Wolfers, Arnold, 554
• Woodward, Col. Lester, 575n
• Working Group on U. S Disarmament Policy, 601–602
• Yeagley, J. Walter, 272
• York, Herbert F., 31, 321, 336, 341, 348, 386, 396, 406, 412, 413, 448, 503, 546, 611
• Yugoslavia, 614
• Zacharias, Jerrold R., 612
• Zulueta, Philip de, 864