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...named MIT President James Killian his science adviser and told him to put the nation on the scientific equivalent of a war footing. The government stressed math and science in public schools, steered college students toward science degrees, created a National Aeronautics and Space Administration and pointed it generally spaceward. Spaceward is where the country went...
...Deception. McNamara did not deny that during the next three years a nose count of Russian ICBMs may find the Soviets moving ahead. But the next day's papers headlined stories focused on the proposition that the "missile gap," which has worried the nation since Sputnik I shot spaceward in 1957, no longer exists...
Then, when the button is pressed, the missile will surge thunderously spaceward. Time for launching: 20 minutes or less...
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