Dulles, John Foster

John Foster Dulles, Our Policies toward Communism in China, speech to the Lions International Club, San Francisco, 28 June 1957, FRUS 19JJ-7, HI, pp. 558, 564. 

John Foster Dulles and the Taiwan Roots of the Two Chinas Policy. In Richard H. Immerman, ed., John Poster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 2. —6z. 

NEUTRON BOMB. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated in October 1957 that recent tests point to the possibility of possessing nuclear weapons, the destructiveness and radiation effects of which can be confined substantially to predetermined targets. Dulles was referring to the neutron bomb, which uses prompt radiation effects (principally from neutrons) to destroy living organisms but which has modest conventional-weapon effects such as blast and high temperatures. The neutron bomb would have relatively little radioactive fall-... 

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