Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indicated repeatedly by Premier Khrushchev [250 ICBMs per year out of one factory]. It is, therefore, conceivable that within about two years they will have a sufficient stockpile to permit a massive missile attack on the U.S. . . . We will not have in full operation warning systems which will give SAC enough warning time to get the alert force airborne before it can be destroyed on the ground...
Power's recommendations: immediate funds to get SAC's B-52 bombers ready for a round-the-clock airborne alert, large-scale procurement of the B70 Mach 3 bomber, and a big military space program -"control of space may well mean control of the globe in a future war." Power was seconded on the space argument by Major General John B. Medaris, chief of the Army Ordnance Missile Command. In an interview with Missiles and Rockets, on the eve of his retirement, Medaris blasted as "utter nonsense" the Administration's dividing the space program into civilian...
...deterrent gap." In 1963, explains Defense Secretary Thomas Gates, the U.S. will not be relying solely or even mainly on ICBMs for its main deterrent power. The big punch will still be the H-bombs in the bays of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers. Backing up SAC's bombers will be a growing force of missiles, but SAC alone will provide an abundance of what the Pentagon calls "overkill." The H-bombs carried by a single B-52 bomber add up to 20 megatons of blast power-the equivalent of 1,000 A-bombs...
There is no real argument about the power of SAC, backed up by the nuclear-armed fighters of the Tactical Air Command in Europe, to deter a Soviet attack on the U.S. this year. But earnest and patriotic men are haunted by doubts as to whether the U.S. can complacently rely on SAC to bridge the missile gap as it widens in 1961 and beyond, and whether the President's $41 billion defense budget for fiscal 1961 is an adequate response to the challenge of that gap. The critics do not argue that the 1961 budget fails to provide...