Tim Combes’s Reviews > Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State > Status Update

"[Kennedy] risked nuclear war to keep his secrets. Kennedy has been praised extravagantly ever after for being wise and restrained. The man who was restrained and responsible was Khrushchev, who accepted the trade along with the humiliating submission to the secrecy pledge. The Cuban affair ended as it had begun: in a shroud of secrecy surrounded by lies."

Wills effing hates Kennedy LOL

In regards to the removal of Oppenheimer's security clearance: "He could be refuted by people who spoke from documents that he could not read and they could not quote, which made him unqualified to express an opinion. Many are the political uses of secrecy."