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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...
...aircraft cutbacks proposed by the Administration would permit the Air Force to build only 40 more Boeing B-52 jet bombers, bringing the B-52 force to a total of 700 by the end of 1963, and only 30 more delta-wing, 1,400-m.p.h. Convair B-58s, for a total of 86. Air Force planners were distressed that only $70 million was earmarked for two prototype models of the 2,000-m.p.h. B70 long-range bomber, which airmen envisage as being able to fly anywhere in the world within five hours and to lay as many as 100 small...
...FORCE STRETCH-OUT will trim deliveries of Boeing KC-135 air tankers and Convair B58 bombers. Air Force will buy only 66 tankers this fiscal year instead of 96 ordered, and only 20 B-58s instead...
...obsolescence-doomed Atlases and Titans to replace SAC bombers. So the Administration is partially leapfrogging the Atlas-Titan generation. During the early 1960s the U.S. will continue to rely for much of its retaliatory power on SAC's manned bombers. Meanwhile, SAC will be kept updated, with B-58s and B-70s gradually replacing B...
...missile obsolescence problem. Today the heavy-wallop weapons are the B-52 and B-47. Around the corner is a new generation: the B58 bomber, Atlas, Titan. But a few years beyond these, the Air Force sees a radically different weapons system of Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, ready for rapid launching from invulnerable underground nests (TIME, March 10). Under the pressure of the budget ceiling, Air Force brains are asking: Why sink most of our development and procurement funds over the next few years into B-58s and liquid-fuel ICBMs that will become obsolete as the Minuteman system builds...