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Simple geography (see map) explained it. During the early '60s, when Russia may hold a temporary lead in numbers of intercontinental missiles, NATO's IRBMs based in England and Italy, later perhaps in Turkey, will cover enough targets in Russia to bridge the gap between less effective SAC bombers and rising numbers of U.S.-based ICBMs. Perhaps even more important, possession of missiles by NATO nations (for the time being the U.S. controls the atomic warheads) gives them a sense of participation in their own defense in the missile...
BMEWS, locked into existing U.S. radar chains, including the $600 million DEW line across North Canada-Alaska, will instantaneously feed its data on the incoming missiles into North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs and into the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Theoretically, SAC would have 20 minutes or so to get thermonuclear bombers airborne while the President or his authorized deputies take the decision whether or not to launch the bomber counterstrike. The President or his deputies will also decide-in perhaps five minutes-whether or not to launch the U.S.'s handful of intercontinental...
...before 8 o'clock Friday morning Dulles was wheeled into an operating room, put under anesthetic. Surgeon Heaton cut a small incision in the patient's groin to get at the hernia, kept his eye peeled for a sign of recurrence of the cancer. On the hernia sac he found a suspicious-looking nodular implant. He noticed, too, that a small amount of abdominal fluid was released after the sac was cut away. By Walter Reed's high-speed pneumatic tubes he shot the tissue and the fluid to the laboratory for a routine examination. The verdict...
...SAC's home bases-a total of less than 50-will become vulnerable when the U.S.S.R. builds its expected 500-1,500 ICBMs...
...Even in SAC's fondest dreams, it has little hope of getting an effective warning system much before 1960-61, in any event can hardly hope for much more warning than the 15 minutes' interval between blast-off and strike. Said SAC's Commanding General Tom Power in testimony last month before the Preparedness Subcommittee: SAC has no "airborne alert" in the sense of loaded bombers in midair at all times, and without adequate warning "it is conceivable that you could knock out SAC...