Гилпатрик выступил с речью 21 октября 1961 г. См. текст выступления: Roswell L. Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Speech Before the Business Council at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB56/BerlinC6.pdf. Joseph A. Lofus, “Gilpatric Warns U. S. Can Destroy Atom Aggressor: Puts Nuclear Arms in ‘Tens of Thousands’ – Doubts Soviet Would Start War,” New York Times, October 22, 1961. См. также “First-Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, September, 1961: New Documents from the Kennedy Administration” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 56, edited by William Burr, released September 25, 2001, nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB56/.