Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow should decide some mid night to attack the U.S., 900 Soviet heavy bombers could be over North America by dawn. Some 300 Red planes, manned by elite crews and loaded with nuclear or thermonuclear bombs, would streak toward vital U.S. target areas. The others, carrying TNT and fire bombs, would serve to divert and confuse U.S. defenses...
Blip & Buzzer. Every day 25,000 aircraft, on the average, are flying over the U.S., and all are suspect until proved friendly. Every plane flying near target areas or over 4,000 ft. must file a flight plan; any deviation of ten miles or five minutes attracts jet interceptors...
...most creditable job in cleaning him up ... Bad weather and a tremendous mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range is shorter than the radius of H-bomb destruction. Any bomber within gun range is already close enough to inflict ruinous thermonuclear damage. The Nike rocket has 1,500,000 parts, is complex and unpredictable. Better guided missiles and more launching sites are necessary...
State Department planners have accepted as a target M.I.T.'s cautious estimate that, once started, World Partnership for Growth would make possible an overall 1% annual increase in income per capita for the underdeveloped nations of the world. Considering the poverty and vast size of the populations involved, this is no mean target. But it is easily within the giant capabilities...
...target suggested above is, in my view, both feasible and desirable. It is a potentially realizable goal. But it will not just happen. To reach it requires a long-range program...