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Word: troublefraught (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1968-1968
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Intelligence Gap. The AMSA concept took a long time to develop and was further delayed by two big Ms-money and McNamara. The former Defense Secretary could never be persuaded of AMSA's immediate merit. He argued that the current B-52s and the troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: On with the Manned Bomber | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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