{"id":12688,"date":"2008-02-25T19:36:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T02:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/25\/nixon-nukes-and-brinkmanship.html"},"modified":"2008-02-25T19:36:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T02:36:57","slug":"nixon_nukes_and_brinkmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/nixon_nukes_and_brinkmans.html","title":{"rendered":"Nixon, Nukes, and Brinkmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Operation: Giant Lance <\/em>(hmmmmm, compensating much?) and how Nixon and Kissinger tried to make the President look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/security\/magazine\/16-03\/ff_nuclearwar?currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">crazy enough to&nbsp;start a nuclear war<\/a> if North Vietnam didn&#8217;t start negotiating in earnest at the Paris Peace Talks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation: Giant Lance (hmmmmm, compensating much?) and how Nixon and Kissinger tried to make the President look crazy enough to&nbsp;start a nuclear war if North Vietnam didn&#8217;t start negotiating in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14466,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/whatever-happened-to-blessed-are-the-peacemakers.html","url_meta":{"origin":12688,"position":0},"title":"Whatever happened to &#8220;Blessed are the Peacemakers&#8221;?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Apr-09 2:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Obama has raised the idea of trying to dramatically cut back the number of nuclear weapons in the world. 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