"Can nuclear strategy and morality be compatible....[and] can initiating the use of nuclear weapons ever be morally justified?"" asks Harvard University's Nuclear Study Group in a Christian Science Monitor op-ed released.

In analyzing the growing Vietnam protest movement at the time, Belfer Center founder Paul Doty writes that, "One person can at most add only a drop to the oceans of reporting and analysis of student protest.... It is neither valid nor useful to think only of the radicals and the rest. A recent survey of student attitudes (January 1969) makes this clear. This is the spectrum which emerged: revolutionaries, 3 percent; radical dissidents, 10 percent; reformers, 39 percent; moderates, 37 percent; conservatives, 11 percent. Thus only a quarter are at the extremes while three-quarters dominate the broad middle ground; it is these who will surely determine what is to become permanent from this cultural revolution."