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...still covered by scrubby palms. Occasional rattlesnakes are still found there, and when a hurricane drives them inland, the snakes become a serious nuisance. The pads are spread out, miles from each other, connected by a series of highways with names like "Solid Motor Road," "Central Control Road," and "ICBM Road...
Enthoven has participated in studies of projected ICBM requirements, non-nuclear NATO defense strategy, and rapid deployment of troops. The approach to all these problems is what Enthoven calls a simple marginal analysis: determining how much better one alternative will serve long-range objectives than another alternative under various conditions. "It's quantitative common sense," he explained...
...McNamara must eventually answer is whether to order production and deployment of the Army's Nike-X anti-missile missile system. If McNamara says yes, it will cost the U.S. about $25 billion. And if, as the Army claims, Nike-X would offer the U.S. effective protection against ICBM attack, it would be cheap at the price. What McNamara must decide is whether the Nike-X system, with some of its key components barely off the drawing boards after eight years of effort and some $2 billion in expenditures, will live up to Army expectations...
...Army envisions it, MAR control centers across the U.S. will stand sentry duty against ICBM attacks. A MAR center outside New York City, for example, will cover the East Coast from New England to Washington. Each center will have a three-story, underground, concrete-and-steel residence for computers assessing the information given by the radar beams...
Worth the Gamble? Nike-X would use two types of missiles. One is the Nike-Zeus, a long-range, supersonic bird that, in tests, has already proved its ability to intercept and down an ICBM traveling 18,000 m.p.h. far above the atmosphere. The other is Sprint, a shorter-range missile with a tremendous but highly classified starting power. Sprint has months, or even years, of testing to go before it can even begin to be considered operational. But the idea is that the Nike-Zeus would go off first, seek out and try to destroy all incoming, outer-atmosphere...