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...joins in the urgent warning that the buildup of Russian missile strength calls for a drastic overhaul of U.S. defense policy. While somewhat nervously overstating the imminent peril of the missile gap ( TIME. Feb. 17). Kissinger argues convincingly that U.S. forces, in order to deter, must be able to absorb a first strike and still retaliate with the promise of damage which the Soviets will find unacceptable...
...second point has particular bearing on any prospects that Herman Kahn will receive a blase reaction from those who indeed do absorb his voluminous and repititious points. Since only the very enthralled will bother with the book, they could naturally be expected to have violent reactions one way or the other; as for the rest--the apathetic public, silent generation, or whatever you want to call them--they neither actively care about nor know from such things, so their indifference matters little (at least at this stage...
...were to find a way to make its populations "secure" from our attack, I am reasonably sure that we would seek the weapons to undo this military advantage. There is no reason to expect that the Russians will be any more willing to see us develop the capability to absorb a major nuclear strike. Since I cannot discuss these problems in detail here; I invite the interested to read the speeches on Civil Defense of Senator Young and Governor Meyner of New Jersey and the SANE memorandum on the Framingham shelter, posted in the TOCSIN office, basement of B-entry...
Bonds of Pressure. The propaganda that the tourists absorb about "great leaps forward" is somewhat dissipated by what the visiting Latino can see. But there is no denying the peasantry, and the revolution, and at least a superficial resemblance to much of Latin America...
...ECONOMIC GROWTH. "There, is no contradiction between sound fiscal policy and rapid economic growth," so the U.S. can have more rapid industrial growth without inflation. But it is "difficult" to be specific about a growth rate except to say that it should be "enough to absorb the growth of the labor force, at a level of relatively full employment...