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National Archives, SN 70-73, Pol Chicom-US
RG 59, Subject-Numeric Files, 1970-1973 (hereinafter SN 70-73, with file cite), Pol Chicom-US
Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel
Richard Nixon Presidential Library
CIA Mandatory Declassification Review release in 2017
State Department Policy Planning Staff director Gerard C. Smith had been working closely with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in trying to develop alternatives to massive retaliation which both believed was becoming less and less credible as the "primary deterrent to all kinds of Communist aggression." In this paper, Smith fleshed out proposals for a minimum deterrence force that he believed was consistent with the direction of Dulles' thinking. But Smith's suggestions for an alternative nuclear strategy met formidable resistance at the Pentagon, although some of his ideas would dovetail with the policies of the Democratic administrations during the 1960s.[18]
Navy Archives, Arleigh Burke Papers, SIOP/NSTL Briefing Folder; DNSA
DNSA; from RG 59, Records of Henry Kissinger, box 7, Apr 1974 Nodis Memcons
Carter Presidential Library
Gorbachev Foundation