NUCLEAR ARMS
Control By President fN.Z.P.A.-Keuter—Copyright? DETROIT, Sept. 9. President Johnson, opening his presidential election campaign, said that in the first nuclear exchange 100 million Americans and more than 100 million Russians would be killed. “And when it was over, our great cities would be in ashes, our fields barren, our industry destroyed, our dreams vanished,” he said. “As long as I am Presisident 1 will bend every effort to make sure that day never comes.” Taking indirect issue with his opponent. Senator Barry Goldwater, President Johnson said there was no such thing as "a conventional nuclear weapon.” For 19 peril-filled years, no nation had loosed the atom against another. "To do so now is a political decision of the highest order,” he added. “It would lead us down an uncertain path of blows and counter-blows whose outcome none may know. Senator Goldwater had suggested N.A.T.O. commanders be permitted to decide when tactical nuclear weapons should be used.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30542, 10 September 1964, Page 15
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