…but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: “[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong… As far as I am concerned, it made no difference… If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn’t changed. I didn’t believe it then, and I don’t believe it now…”

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