We must maintain a stockpile of strategic materials, but the $8.5 billion we have acquired--for reasons both good and bad--is much more than we need; and we should be empowered to dispose of the excess in ways which will not cause market disruption.
Kennedy discusses the need to manage the stockpile of strategic materials effectively to avoid market disruption.
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The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.
But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly than ever, in the world of communism as well as our own.
Today we still welcome those winds of change--and we have every reason to believe that our tide is running strong.
Tomorrow it can form the framework for a world of law--a world in which no nation dictates the destiny of another, and in which the vast resources now devoted to destructive means will serve constructive ends.