Editing Robert McNamara (section)

====Nuclear testing====
{{main|Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty}}
Prior to the end of the 1958–1961 nuclear test moratorium, McNamara privately acknowledged that atmospheric tests were "not really necessary."{{sfn|Jacobson|Stein|1966|pp=345–346}} Once President Kennedy decided to resume atmospheric and exoatmospheric testing, the Department of Defense gave materiel support to the 1962 [[Operation Dominic]], [[Operation Fishbowl]] and [[Operation Sunbeam]] test series. After the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty had been signed, McNamara in August 1963 announced his "unequivocal support" for the treaty ratification before the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]], arguing that US nuclear forces were secure and clearly superior to those of the Soviet Union, and that any major Soviet tests would be detected.<ref name=cq>{{cite web |title=Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Ratified |work=CQ Almanac |publisher=[[Congressional Quarterly]] |url=https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal63-1317011#H2_1 |date=1964 |access-date=11 August 2016}}</ref>