Word: 36s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic Air Force (B-36s and B-29s) to carry the atom bomb, which, though not in action, was and still is the U.S.'s main bet. About 65% of all procurement went to the Air Force last year...
Part of the answer was that the U.S. armed forces were designed for another kind of war: an all-out war in which a direct attack by Moscow was to be directly answered by atom-bomb-packed B-36s. The effectiveness of that kind of force had not been disproved by first week setbacks in Korea. But already Louis Johnson's touted economy program was looking downright absurd. Last week, to meet the 1951 budget limitations dictated by Johnson, the Navy decommissioned the last of 14 large carrier air groups, reducing its total groups to nine...