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...word coming more and more into Pentagon usage is "overkill"-a blunt but descriptive term implying a power to destroy a military target not once but many times more than necessary. On Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's desk last week lay the paper plans that will soon add up to a problem of overkill: each of the services is ready to offer one or more complete weapons systems, each one promising to achieve nuclear annihilation of Russian targets. McElroy's problem: How much is enough-or to put it another way, how many times...
...over the Spanish people. Franco retorts that Spain is the most staunchly anti-Communist of all the U.S.'s allies, has asked U.S. military experts to make a special study of Spain's "increased vulnerability" on the ground that U.S. bases have made his country a "frontline" target of Soviet long-range missiles. Spain is the only nation in Western Europe now receiving direct grants of economic aid from the U.S. But Franco argues that Spain received no help under the Marshall Plan, is asking for enough additional money to help raise the Spanish economy to the level...
...blue-yonder project in its history. Name of project: Minuteman. Nature of Minuteman: a whole new weapons system of 3,000 to 4,000 solid-fuel "second-generation" missiles of variable 500-mile to 5,500-mile range, each to be kept in a state of pushbutton readiness, warheaded, target-aimed, in concealed and dispersed underground launching slots...
...with his decision to move ahead into the research and development phase of Minuteman, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, only 20 weeks in office, is driving for a second-generation ring around the U.S.S.R. designed to deter war and to support U.S. diplomacy through the mid-and late-1960s. Target date for the first 50 to 60 Minuteman missiles on the defense line: July...
...ground. But in the event of war, nothing more than the press of a thumb on a Minuteman red switch would be needed to flip back the steel caps, fire the missiles in their tubes and shoot them out on 800-to 1,000-mile-high trajectories to preplanned targets. Still another new Minuteman paper asset: a secret new high speed to enable the missile to race to target faster than enemy contramissiles can counterstrike...