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...officials recognize that the Communists would in all likelihood retaliate by attempting to bomb Formosa itself, which the U.S. is committed to defend, and where U.S. fighters are already flying protective patrols. The first Red Chinese bomber shot down by U.S. planes would create new, and dangerously explosive, problems...
...planes are flying armed only with conventional weapons. "We are not flying loaded for bear, but for rabbit," said one pilot wryly. But on the deck of each of her carriers, right over the "special weapons" bay, stands a single A3D bomber. An armed marine guard stands by to keep inquisitive seamen at a distance. Should the signal come from Washington, the deck beneath the A3D would open, and up would come an elevator to tuck into the plane's belly a nuclear bomb capable of reducing all Peking and its masters to radioactive dust...
...Army's reliable Redstone took a nuclear warhead up an estimated 100 miles and exploded it in the thin air on space's edge-a high-altitude test, say intelligence reports, that came ten months behind a similar U.S.S.R. shot in the crucial race for the anti-bomber and antimissile missile (see SCIENCE). Next day Air Force missilemen at Cape Canaveral, Fla. sent their mightiest beast, a 100-ton three-engined Atlas-B ballistic missile, on its first successful full-power flight...
...manned atomic bomber, declares Paratrooper Gavin, will be out of business even before the intercontinental ballistic missile is on hand to replace it. Date for the bomber's "early obsolescence": the moment effective Russian "surface-to-air missiles carrying nuclear warheads are on the site in numbers." If such deterrent protection is to be retained, argues Gavin, "we will have to step up missile production so as to have, at an early date, an arsenal of combat-ready, mobile, intermediate and long-range missile systems...
...nation's top military and civilian defense experts will take off coats and jackets, roll up their sleeves to wrestle with the big questions. Items: bomber" may cost as much as $20 million), where can cuts best be taken? One favored answer: in manpower, by cutting active forces, reserves and National Guard contingents. One offbeat item that could cut the budget to the tune of $10 billion: an efficient reconnaissance satellite that would keep the U.S. so well posted...