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...there was outspoken Pentagon support for the nuclear test-ban treaty, despite the fact that the U.S. had no well-tested anti-ballistic missile. This year everyone has ducked the problem, and there are no substantial funds included in the budget for producing the Nike-X, which cannot be definitively tested without atmospheric nuclear explosions...
...really new weapons. Despite longstanding congressional demands, the defense message called for no urgent program to develop a manned bomber to follow the technologically aging B-52s and B-58s. And President Johnson again postponed a decision on whether to produce an anti-ballistic missile system, the much discussed Nike-X, which employs the high-speed Sprint missile and is designed to intercept even a saturation volley of incoming ICBMs. Engineering has progressed to the point where a final test series on the system is planned for this summer, after which the decision probably will hinge on whether Johnson feels...
...missiles and the promises made about them by officials of the Democratic Administration. Last week, despite a previous public rebuke from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (TIME, Jan. 17), Goldwater was still at it. Speaking in New York, he accused McNamara of deliberately misleading the U.S. by saying that the Nike-Zeus antimissile missile is the "best weapon" of its kind. Said Goldwater: "I have never agreed with Secretary McNamara that we should lie to the American people about weapons systems...
...displayed a squadron of finned, 50-ft.-long rockets, which they insisted were anti-missile missiles (the birds looked more like beefed-up versions of the Soviet SA-2 antiaircraft missile, and Western observers thought that at most they could be the equivalent of the U.S Army's Nike Zeus). At the Kremlin reception later, Khrushchev's toasts were so heartily anti-Western that U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler finally asked: "Where is the Spirit of Moscow? I haven't heard any toasts I could drink...
Rewards & Penalties. The Pentagon, after months of experimenting with various incentive contracts, in January will begin a system that will evaluate and mathematically rate the way defense companies perform on all noncompetitive contracts. Such contracts cover 60% of defense spending, and all the big-ticket hardware from Nike to Nautilus. The new system, devised by McNamara's deputy assistant, Graeme C. Bannerman, 53, will award extra profits to a contractor who stays within his bid (contractors now frequently run well over bids), delivers on time, finances the job without the help of Government money, contributes his own technology...