Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Missile Flap. Neither was Goldwater appreciative of Democratic defense policy, particularly in its increasing dependence on intercontinental missiles instead of SAC bombers. "I don't feel safe at all about our missiles," he told a press-conference questioner. "I wish the Defense Department would tell the American people how undependable the missiles in our silos actually are. I can't tell you-it's classified -and I'll probably catch hell for saying this...
Gentle Reminder. McNamara, impressive as usual, ticked off a few awesome facts of U.S. nuclear power: more than 2,000 atomic warheads ready in case of war, a 100% increase in two years; 500 SAC bombers and 500 intercontinental missiles, with 1,000 more missiles by 1966; a new 155-mm. nuclear howitzer to boost the power of Army ground forces, whose manpower has been raised by 45% within two years. In a gentle but unmistakable reminder to U.S. allies, the Pentagon chief said that unless they hiked their own contributions to NATO, Congress and U.S. public opinion would become...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at the new SAC, as it adjusts to the era of missiles...
Died. Marshal Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev, 63, onetime (1949-57) chief of the Soviet Air Force, later (1957-59) boss of Aeroflot, the civil airline, a bomber pilot chosen by Stalin to develop a Red version of SAC in case the missiles went pffft, later picked by Khrushchev to make Aeroflot, world's biggest carrier, a Soviet showcase with monster TU-114 airliners, which turned out to be uneconomical passenger editions of the Bear bomber; somewhere in the Soviet Union...
...cold war: "Five Russian divisions are demobilized, an atomic testing station in the Urals is destroyed, and 40 new Soviet Submarines are flooded and sunk. The Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent towards a peaceful showdown, and nobody blinks...