Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 11. Oktober 1969 / Time Line October 11, 1969
Version 3.510. Oktober 1969, 12. Oktober 1969
10/11/1969
Nixon's Nuclear Ploy: The Vietnam Negotiations and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test
During October 1969, President Richard Nixon ordered the Pentagon
to undertake secretly a series of military measures designed to put
U.S. nuclear forces on a higher state of readiness. For nearly
three weeks, U.S. nuclear bombers were on higher alert, while U.S.
air defense forces, tactical aircraft, and nuclear missile
submarines in the Pacific took measures to raise their combat
readiness. Moreover, U.S. destroyers, cruisers, and aircraft
carriers were engaged in a variety of maneuvers in the Atlantic,
the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Aden, and the Sea of Japan. These
measures were officially known as the "Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
Readiness Test." Although they were executed secretly so that the
public in the United States and allies would not notice them, they
were supposed to be detectable, but not alarming, to the leadership
of the Soviet Union and its intelligence services.
The U.S. commanders-in-chief (CINCs)--of the Strike, Strategic Air,
and Continental Air Defense Commands, and of U.S. forces in Alaska,
the Atlantic, in Europe, in the Pacific, and elsewhere--who
presided over the alert and readiness measures did not know why
Nixon had ordered them. Indeed, they could only guess about the
purpose because Pentagon officials could not or would not give them
any information.
Kilder: Nixon's Nuclear Ploy: The Vietnam Negotiations
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test, October 1969
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 81. Edited
by William Burr, National Security Archive and Jeffrey Kimball,
Professor of History, Miami University.
December 23, 2002. -
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB81/index2.htm
The Department of State:Foreign Relations of the United States,
1969–1976, Volume XXXIV, National Security Policy,
1969–1972. Editor: M. Todd Bennett. General Editor:
Edward C. Keefer. - Washington DC: United States Government
Printing Office, Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
2011.- 1093 s. -
http://static.history.state.gov/frus/frus1969-76v34/pdf/frus1969-76v34.pdf
 |
 |