MAD on SALT

Surveying the world crisis thirty years ago, James Burnham saw plainly enough what it would take for the United States to triumph over Communism.

“The crux . . .” wrote Burnham, “is in the will. Does the United States choose to win? Can it make the necessary decision? Is it going to have, at the required tension, the will to survive? The answer to this triply phrased question is the determinant of the future.”