Ten years ago, in 1963, de Gaulle had just succeeded in preventing Macmillan’s Britain from joining the EEC, in disregard both of the other members and of the bureaucracy of that organization. Macmillan himself had succeeded with Kennedy at Nassau in contracting for Polaris missiles with which to arm the United Kingdom’s own nuclear submarines. Kennedy’s alleged laurels of the Cuban missile crisis were still fresh, the three thermonuclear powers were negotiating a significant measure of arms control, and a brief era had begun in which it was sensible to regard the United States as the one super power.