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...reduce other parts of their arsenals. Under this approach, the U.S. could agree to scrap ten of its Polaris submarines, while the Russians would be permitted to build up their fleet to parity with the U.S. at 31 boats. The U.S. would phase out all of its B-52s and B-58s while building enough FB-111s, the strategic fighter-bomber version of the swing-wing F-111, to match the Soviet TU-95s in numbers. The U.S. would abandon Safeguard ABMs, the Russians would dismantle or neutralize the Galosh network and the Tallinn Line. Both sides would agree...
With all this overkill, the critics ask, would the U.S. not have enough of its deterrent left for an overwhelming retaliatory strike even if the Soviets did wipe out most of the U.S. ICBMs? No one knows for sure. Some of the remaining ICBMs might misfire. The B-52s and B-58s are vulnerable to Soviet fighters and antiaircraft missiles; many of them probably would not reach their targets. Laird hints at Soviet antisubmarine warfare developments that may seriously threaten the Polaris submarine fleet in a few years. Further, he says that Moscow is developing an advanced ABM that could...
...ADVANCED MANNED STRATEGIC AIRCRAFT. The Air Force, reluctant to rely entirely on missiles to penetrate Soviet and Chinese defenses, wants to start work on an AMSA fleet to replace the aging B-52s and B-58s. Foster favors the AMSA, but not immediately. He prefers to improve weapons and penetration devices on the older bombers...
...session, McNamara was spared the predicted barrage of congressional brickbats. One of the few salvos came from Subcommittee Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who asked if the Defense Secretary were not himself weakening the U.S. deterrent by an overreliance on missiles. No, said McNamara: by the time the B-58s and older-model B-52s are scrapped, the U.S. will still have 255 late-model B-52s and 210 of the planned FB-111s-plus 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan II missiles in hardened sites, and 656 Polaris missiles in 41 floating platforms. One-fifth of this force, said McNamara...
...backstop deterrent, argues that by firing air-to-ground rockets against antiaircraft installations ahead, among other techniques, more bombers could get through than might be expected. But under present planning, reports Power, within eight to ten years "all B-47s would have long been retired; the remaining B-52s would be worn and obsolete, and the limited number of B-58s would be obsolescent at best," while "for the first time in the history of American strategic airpower, no follow-on bomber is under development." Power's emergency solution: Adapt the F-lll (TFX) fighter-bomber...