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...Bomber' Brown...
...about at just that time. On that date Richard L. Garwin, an IBM executive and a member of the President's Science Advisory Group under Nixon and Johnson and John F. McCarthy, Jr. a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT will debate the merits of the B-1 bomber. (Oddly enough, Garwin will speak against the bomber, and McCarthy in favor.) Roger Fisher, the creator of the television debate program "The Advocates" and a professor at Harvard Law School, will serve as moderator...
Kistiakowsky also mentioned reports of bomber and missile gaps in the 1950s, the Gaither study, which claimed the Soviet Union would have military superiority by 1960, and a report issued during the Kennedy administration which said the Soviets were building air raid shelters across the country...
...give in on some things by October [when the 1972 SALT I treaty expires] the world will come to an end or even that negotiations will. [The talks have been snagged for months on how to deal with two new weapons: the U.S. cruise missile and the Soviet Backfire bomber.] I would be willing to consider limiting [cruise missiles] under certain circumstances, but it depends on what you get for it and how the other side is limited. From what I read and see, the Backfire was not originally intended as a strategic arm against the U.S. The question...
...BOMBER. The manned bomber does have certain advantages-you can raise its readiness, which is a visible sign, and it can be recalled [while a missile, once fired, cannot]. On the other hand, there are air defenses that make its attrition rate high, and it is vulnerable on the ground. Its big advantage is that it provides a different kind of penetration so that it complicates the other side's problems. The question is: How much can you afford to pay for that, as compared with the other ways you could spend the funds...