Volume 12, Number 6 · March 27, 1969
Nixon and the Arms Race: How Much Is "Sufficiency"?
By I.F. Stone
The annals of the Nixon Administration, in so far as arms are concerned, must begin, like the Gospel of John, with The Word. But Nixon has changed The Word at the very outset. In the campaign it was 'superiority.' At his first press conference this was changed to 'sufficiency.' The two words seem to move in different directions. One implies an endless arms race. The other seems to promise that at some point we will have enough.
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