Not directly relevant, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIM-49_Nike_Zeus#Kennedy_and_Zeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIM-49_Nike_Zeus#Kennedy_and_Z...

Not directly relevant, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIM-49_Nike_Zeus#Kennedy_and_Zeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIM-49_Nike_Zeus#Kennedy_and_Z... "Kennedy was fascinated by the Zeus debate, especially the way that scientists were lined up on diametrically opposed positions for or against the system. He commented to Wiesner, 'I don’t understand. Scientists are supposed to be rational people. How can there be such differences on a technical issue?' His fascination grew and he eventually compiled a mass of material on Zeus which took up one corner of a room where he spent hundreds of hours becoming an expert on the topic. In one meeting with Edward Teller, Kennedy demonstrated that he knew more about the Zeus and ABMs than Teller. Teller then expended considerable effort to bring himself up to the same level of knowledge. Wiesner would later note that the pressure to make a decision built up until 'Kennedy came to feel that the only thing anybody in the country was concerned about was Nike-Zeus.''