Volume 47, Number 19 · November 30, 2000
The Perils of Secrecy
By Lars-Erik Nelson
On February 16, 1959, Air Force General Nathan Twining gave secret testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including then forty-one-year-old Senator John F. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). Kennedy had been lambasting the Eisenhower administration over a supposed 'missile gap,' charging that Russia was about to leap far ahead of the US in nuclear missiles.
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