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...drilling nuclear-missile launching sites deep into the earth makes construction of the pyramids look like a Tinker Toy exercise. Yet despite such everyday troubles as strikes and material shortages, the work on the 207 ICBM silos now under construction...
...picturing the consequences of either limited retaliation or all all-out strike. The first, according to the Soviet note, would bring devastation to each country where it was applied, and hence would likely be rejected by the countries themselves; the second would elicit all-out retailiation by Russia's ICBM and "SAC" forces against vulnerable U. S. bases and cities. Really, the Soviet note concludes, the only sensible course for the President would be acquiescence...
...example cited here, "alerting our strategic forces" might involve any or all of the following: increase the number of planes on ground and air alert; begin the countdown on ICBM's; send decision makers to protected battle stations; verify communication channels; ground all commercial traffic, send some bombers off towards targets but give them orders to return they received coded "go-ahead" confirmation; initiate local counterforce operations which in Kahn's general usage of the might mean sending people to shelters and evacuating them; or finally initiate negotiations with the Russians designed to show them that (1) their attack...
...week when U.S. spacemanship and missilery had won bold successes-the orbiting of Samos, the spy-in-the-sky satellite (see SCIENCE); the clean triumph of the new solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM; the Project Mercury shot and recovery of an "astronaut" chimpanzee*-President Kennedy's grim announcements seemed curiously out of phase, as if he had stumbled upon a copy of the Soviet Doomsday Book...
...NATO not only be given control over American tactical nuclear forces in Europe but acquire a strategic nuclear force of its own as well. He feels, in fact, that NATO should become a "fourth atomic power" with an armory including everything from short-range Honest Johns to 1500-mile ICBM...