"It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives."
— Robert McNamara

January 1, 1970

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In: Herbert Y. Schandler (1975), US Policy on the Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1975. p. 55