Top Air Force Official Told Jcs in 1971: "we Could Lose Two Hundred Million People [in a Nuclear War] and Still Have More Than We Had at the Time of the Civil War"

Burr, WIlliam (2017-02-15). Top Air Force Official Told Jcs in 1971: "we Could Lose Two Hundred Million People [in a Nuclear War] and Still Have More Than We Had at the Time of the Civil War".

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Abstract: Recap of sections of declassified diaries of Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Section page nine states: "...A topic of great interest to Moorer was the negotiations over the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, becoming known as Micronesia. The United States had held the islands in a U.N. trusteeship since the 1940s – using some for nuclear testing and others for CIA and military training – and was under growing pressure from the islanders for greater autonomy. The White House had appointed F. Hadyn Williams to handle the negotiations, and Captain William Crowe would be his military aide. For Moorer, the Navy had a great stake in the outcome: “this negotiation determines the US defense posture in the Western Pacific for the next 50 years. I pointed out [to Crowe] that in Cam Ranh Bay [South Vietnam] we were giving away everything; that we had turned back Okinawa; we were decreasing emphasis in Taiwan; and we need a place that is US territory.”