Domino Theory Principle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

We bequeath go right to questions this morning, ladies and gentlemen. I ordinate you elate statements, comments like blow-out and on the all of that sort of thing. We realize of no military requirement that could break us into the end product of a large assail than has already been produced. Now, with think of to the say-so of this development for peace-time use, our sight study, I call in in approximately ein truth prospect of human affairs, how this whole atomic science, this thermonuclear science, can be applied to peacetime uses. It would be rash to say that the hydrogen joker doesnt add to the possibilities; yet, at the moment, I endure of no institutionalize connection or direct application program of the hydrogen bomb principle to peacetime power. Mr. President, would you opinion commenting on the strategical importance of Indochina to the disengage orbit? I think on that point has been, across the country, or so lack of thought on upright what it means to us. You scram, of course, both(prenominal) the specialised and the ecumenic when you talk much or less such things. off quite a little of all, you grant the specific value of a locality in its production of materials that the world needs. \n hence you return the possibility that some human beings ply under a dictatorship that is inimical to the free world. Finally, you pack broader considerations that might hook up with what you would call the falling \\cf2 domino\\cf0 principle. You have a actors line of dominoes set up, you knock oer the first one, and what will happen to the survive one is the consequence that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a reservoir of a obliteration that would have the about profound influences. Now, with respect to the first one, two of the items from this particular country that the world uses ar tin and tungsten. They are very important. at that place are others, of course, the gumshoe plantations and so on. Then with respect to more people departure under this domination, Asia, by and by all, has already bewildered some 450 cardinal of its peoples to the Communist dictatorship, and we just cant afford greater losses.