Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone will provide an abundance of what the Pentagon calls "overkill." The H-bombs carried by a single B-52 bomber add up to 20 megatons of blast power-the equivalent of 1,000 A-bombs of the size that leveled Hiroshima-and SAC has 400 B-52s. During the next three years SAC will add 300 more B-52s (armed with 500-mile Hound Dog air-to-ground missiles as well as H-bombs), plus about 90 supersonic B-58s. The theory of deterrence rests on the assumption that the enemy leaders will be rational, and the Administration argues...