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...small part of the NORAD team [Jan. 12], I would like to congratulate you on an uncomplicated presentation of a vital complex system. I feel certain that you have done much to tone down the screams of many taxpayers wondering where and how their dollars are being spent in the field of national defense...
Since I am convinced that the earth is round, I hate to think that Russia might get an idea to "knock" on the back door of NORAD via the South Pole. Did not the Germans once bypass the famous Maginot line...
...hardly expected to see the Russian bear on NORAD's plotting board-but there it is. Is it Russkephobia or am I ready for Picasso...
...While NORAD estimates that it could knock out 70% of any attacking bomber force with interceptors and Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules and BOMARC missiles, it can do nothing at all to stop an enemy missile after it detects one. For that reason General Kuter, in flat disagreement with most Air Force brass, urges speedy development of the Army's controversial Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Says he: "We urgently need something, even though catching the enemy's missiles after he has thrown them and at the last minute is a poor way to play ball...
...ever expected NORAD to perform the miracle of knocking down everything that an enemy might throw at the U.S. But by probing the skies, sound ing the warning, and blunting the effect of any attack, NORAD is performing, with increasing proficiency, its main function: to mesh with the Strategic Air Command's long-range bombers 'and U.S. retaliatory rocket power to convince an enemy that the cost of aggression would be exorbitant...