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ROUND the clock, day and night, twelve B-52s armed with hydrogen bombs cruise over the U.S. and Canada, carrying maps, charts and radar photos of Soviet targets. They are part of the Strategic Air Command's 1,500-plane retaliatory strike force, but they have a special distinction: because the twelve are always on station at their high-altitude guard posts, they constitute a brand-new weapon in the U.S. arsenal. They are the airborne answer to the threat of Soviet Russia's growing missile force, the minimum strike-back punch that the U.S. can deliver even...
...pieces of old projects. The mongrelized missile is aptly named Hound Dog. It has real bite. As the U.S.'s first effective plane-launched, jet-propelled air-to-ground missile, Hound Dog adds range and firepower to 1960's most potent operational weapon, the intercontinental B-52s of the Strategic Air Command...
These range from small, low-yield, lightweight weapons used by ground and naval forces to the big H-bombs carried by B-52s. Furthermore, there are nuclear devices for antisubmarine warfare, antiaircraft, air-to-air missiles and intercontinental missiles...
...Power, that with a mere 300 ballistic missiles the U.S.S.R. could "wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes," is much to the point. General Power's answer to the threat-an "airborne alert" that would keep 25% of SAC's B-52s in the air at all times - would be enormously strenuous and costly. It would require more flight and maintenance crews, more spare parts to keep up with wear and tear, more tankers, enormous quantities of fuel, all adding up to $1 billion a year. But without it, SAC will...
...missile gap requires that SAC's bombers be safeguarded from a surprise missile attack. The 1961 budget includes a skimpy $90 million to provide for preparations for an airborne alert at some unspecified future time. Needed: additional funds to ensure that 25% of SAC's B-52s can go on airborne alert...