If you make one mistake with nuclear weapons what will occur?

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Please use your best handwriting.

 

  • What will any military commander who is honest with himself admit?

 

 

  • If you make one mistake with nuclear weapons what will occur?

 

 

  • What does McNamara consider his personal rule?

 

 

  • What is lesson #1?

 

 

  • What “emotion” does McNamara say Thompson was exhibiting towards Khrushchev?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #2?

 

 

  • What does McNamara believe got the United States out of nuclear war?

 

 

  • What danger exists today?

 

 

  • What will destroy nations?

 

 

  • What celestial body did Kennedy’s advisors believe the USSR would test nuclear weapons behind?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #3?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #4?

 

 

  • How many Japanese people were burned to death in one night in March 1945?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #5?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #6?

 

 

  • What halted the “pull out” of the United States personnel in Vietnam?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #7?

 

 

  • What did President Johnson believe about the North Vietnamese after the August “attacks?”

 

 

  • What operation was introduced in Vietnam that dropped 2 to 3 times as many bombs as were dropped on Western Europe in all of WWII?

 

 

  • What did McNamara say was not primarily a military problem?

 

 

  • What was the prerequisite to winning the hearts and minds of the people of South Vietnam?

 

 

  • What does President Johnson say America declared war on?

 

 

  • What did the United States’s government not do in Vietnam that it had done in the Cuban Missile Crisis that lead to total misunderstanding?

 

 

  • What type of war did the Vietnamese perceive they were fighting despite American views that it was just an element of the Cold War?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #8?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #9?

 

 

  • What is Lesson #10?

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