Word: polarisation
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The new Strategic Target Planning board, which is responsible for assigning hot war targets to the various services according to capability, is under heavy fire from a diehard Navy clique in the Pentagon. Reason: the director of the targeting board is an Air Force officer, SAC General Thomas Power, who...
Anything less than this-for example a situation where the U.S. depends on nuclear bombers based at easy-target airfields-will provide an almost irresistible temptation for a potential enemy to strike while he has an edge in missiles, and thus eliminate U.S. nuclear forces with only a minimal risk...
The conversion was started by the late President John S. Coleman with the help of his executive vice president, Eppert, who went to work at Burroughs 40 years ago as a shipping clerk. To broaden their product base, they bought two oldtime producers of bank forms and checks. The jump...
Kahn conjures up a similar picture for a Soviet destruction of our Polaris submarine force, not all at once (for that would yield retaliation), but softly one at a time. These hypothetical (we hope) cases are both beyond the usual conception of a limited or ambiguous Soviet move, like Korea...
Army and Navy strategists insist that what is needed is a finite deterrent, a retaliatory force designed to prevent nuclear war, not to "win" it. Enough Polaris subs lurking beneath the sea ("enough" is estimated at 30), enough Minuteman missiles riding the country on railroad trains or at the ready...