BR drafted this telegram in his handwriting on Hubel's telegram to him (see record 7031). It was in response to a request for an opinion to publish on Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War. An ad was to go in the Washington Post on 19 March to counter James R. Newman's "diatribe" against the book (in the Scientific American). The backers of the book were Harrison Brown, Max Lerner, Herbert Humphrey and Henry Kissinger.