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...infallible detection system in the U.S.: the energetic reporters of a free press. Urey hopefully predicted that there soon may be other means of detection available to those who would enforce a test ban. But last week, as testimony piled up, the argument that the probability of detection would deter the Russians from violating a test-ban treaty seemed increasingly fanciful. And the Joint Committee seemed less likely than ever to look with favor on a treaty that-in so far as underground tests were concerned-would derive its principal strength from nothing more than the good faith...
There is no real argument about the power of SAC, backed up by the nuclear-armed fighters of the Tactical Air Command in Europe, to deter a Soviet attack on the U.S. this year. But earnest and patriotic men are haunted by doubts as to whether the U.S. can complacently rely on SAC to bridge the missile gap as it widens in 1961 and beyond, and whether the President's $41 billion defense budget for fiscal 1961 is an adequate response to the challenge of that gap. The critics do not argue that the 1961 budget fails to provide...
...record indicates that nobody has ever been made to pay the penalty. The ban's purpose is not to punish but to deter...
...most remarkable fact about consumer buying is that nothing seems to deter it. During both the recession and the steel strike, consumers held to their buying pace, thus bolstered the economy in a key area just when it needed support. Now, though personal income has leveled off, the consumer is still stepping up his spending...
...these criticisms missed the essential point that deterrent power will deter only to the extent that the enemy is convinced of the U.S.'s willingness to use it -and the willingness would be a lot plainer if the nation's citizens had the protection of fallout shelters. Said the task force: "The physical ability of families to survive even the most terrifying nuclear attack is, in the ultimate reckoning, a fact of crucial importance to our national security. The will to survive, coupled with the ability to do so, ranks next to military power in the nuclear...