Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a brief, costly investment in cruisers, the Russians have decided on essentially a submarine force (500 boats) as the heart of their navy. The sub is basically a defense weapon, designed to deny the seas to an enemy. As any tourist can see, there is no military shipbuilding at the massive Kronstadt yards near Leningrad. The ways are jammed instead with commercial shipping; four cruisers of the Sverdlov class lie there still uncompleted. In tune with the defensive concept is the fact that the Russians have devised the most deadly mines yet known in warfare. One navy officer told...
...full distance with the Atlas 5,500-mile ICBM. In missiles, more than in any other field, the Russians may have the edge on the U.S., principally because of their head start. U.S. missile production should be able to catch up. If it does not, missiles could become the weapon that can give the Soviets promise of becoming a more even match for the West...
...worldly friend advises him to take the money and send in false reports. Wormold, who feels he could never be a real secret agent, accepts the advice: he hires imaginary agents, composes false reports, even sends in drawings of vacuum-cleaner parts as diagrams of a devilish weapon being developed in a rebel province of Cuba...
...months must pass before it cures. Then the U.S. Air Force will slide a 90-ft., 117-ton monster into its perpendicular den and seal it with heavy concrete doors against the megaton shocks of man-made thermonuclear quakes. The monster is the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapon in Air Force history to go underground...
...plan proved workable, says Kissinger, it might be possible to go on to further disarmament measures. But Soviet leaders, he adds, will never accept genuine disarmament as long as Western irresolution leads them to hope that they can "undermine the will to resist aggression with the only effective weapon now at our disposal...