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McNamara Remarks to NAC Meeting

15 Dec 1961
Description: This circular airgram by US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, dated 23 August 1961, contrasts NATO's large and diversified nuclear arsenal with the Soviet Union's relatively few strategic missiles and its formidable IRBM/MRBM forces.

Collection: NATO Military Planning

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Document Type: Telegram
Language of Original Document: English
Number of Pages: 19
Cold War Period: 1960s
Persons: McNamara
Document Source: US National Archives, Department of State Records
Call Number: Record Group 59, Central Decimal Files, 1960-1963, 396.1-PA/12-1561
Document Companion: Footnote 85

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