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...presuming a long-term Soviet lead in 5,000-mile intercontinental ballistic missiles. His presumption ignored one fact: if launched from a NATO base on the European continent, a U.S. 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile has, so far as Russia is concerned, all the bang of an ICBM. Last week, in a major policy decision, the Administration decided to push toward allowing NATO that big bang, even if it means changing the McMahon...
...whole new problem confronts the system. The cold fact: it cannot detect missiles. Warns Air Force General Earle E. Partridge, Commander in Chief of NORAD (North American Air Defense): "If the aggressor's weapon is the ICBM, the continent stands today almost as naked as it did in 1946, for I have no radar to detect missiles and no defense against them...
Marshal of Artillery S. Barentsev wrote in Pravda that the successful production of ICBM's and atomic weapons had changed the whole character of modern warfare...
...ICBM Called Decisive in Future...
...fact: the Truman Administration muddled along spending about $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistics missilery (while a lot of the progress was made by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, paying for experiments on the Atlas ICBM out of its own pocket). Moreover, Chrysler's able Keller, far from being a czar, was an "appraiser" of the missile program, did his able job within that limited authority...