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Show .. 1 r. , - . ( own missiles or aitcraft before ourJL , SepL 6 issue - of the consequences, and nothing else. attack because the cold calculating family weekly) bases were hit. We're working oh a would greatly reduce this Joss if i.of the can restrained be in the future minds wfaiawUrectthe-affalThey system that we hope will give us 20 every family had one,! but our main 7" ; only by our continuing to keep them UJ5.S JR. are not interested in murder to 30 minutes warning, but we can't should be to purpose make sure that afraid of the consequences! '. 7C and suicide, ' expect to. have it operating before n0 ?McJfeever comes. Even so, such es believe their ballistic How is this to be done during the They 1963 or 1964. If then. shelters are a good idea because they 2 to the their answer ahead, when Soviet missile provide years just " " " Also, we have no means of inters are a great aid to public morale dur-in- g how to free themselves problem power may grow by leaps and these missiles once are they cepting from the restraint of that fear. WiUi periods of crisis. A firm, confident bounds? Can we hope for no defense" launched. We're working on an "antipublic attitude" Kelps to make our deof with no and no warning?. first, , ' Jhe privilege stinking missile missile,' but we won't - ha ve terrent power effective. That question brings us to another interception possible and no sufficient the first ones ready before 1964 or While developing their missile proto to strike back, enable us fact about the ballistic, missile: warning ' 1955, if then. with the location of all our air and gram, the Soviets also are keeping It is useful only for attacking fixed the most missile bases known to them, how up powerful army and tacti targets, like air bases and missile cal air force inthe world, with masses our present relative security can we dare challenge their power bases, whose .location is precisely Thus into growing danger- as the of trained reserves and huge stockand invite the devastation of our known. Its guidance system has to of Soviets gradually acquire the means arms and equipment. piles to a programmed flight be pre-s- et country? knockthefor their hoped-fo- r, " threat of. the Red ..Hitherto, surprise They are confident that when they path. Therefore the ballistic missile is out. After 196the danger will have has been offset knock" missiles have our to threat Army out worthless for attack on any moving enough by of "massive retaliation" with "A- - T our striking power at home and. become acute unless .we do sometargets. bdmbs and delivered by thing about it in the meanwhile. abroad, they will have won the cold Gen. Thomas S. Power, SAC We are building ballistic missiles of the planes of the Strategic Air Comwar by default. That confidence has already urged that when mand. Now many overseas bases of -- echoes brutally in everyl statement of our own, to be emplaced in launching the Soviet Union acquires a real sites both in this country and overSAC, and the countries in which they ; Mr. Khrushchev and his colleagues. ICBM : capability, a proportion , of . are located are "under the gun" of seas. But the Soviets will know exto us: Communism has SAC's big bombers be kept constantThey say -"IRBMs. the missile these Soviet where do What if sites won. can about actly are, it, you ly in the air, armed and ready to t allies Our as don't know are it?. like under they already exactly attack. Planes in flight are moving you just getting jumpy this double where our air bases are. In a free threat. They take some Well, there is something we can targets. They are not vulnerable to comfort from Sosuch the do will comand massive about it be construction will fact that that the ballistic missiles, with or without society, viets effective cannot are in be of restrained the fear fear concealed., the. pletely keeping by projects warning." They, can strike back inof consequences clamped like an iron retaliation from air bases m North Some of these launching sites may stantly if a missile attack is made on America which on hand the Soviet U.S.S.R. "hardened" be cannot that is, dug in deep.... their. base. aggressive designs. with attack missiles. shields. attack and concrete Remember, But are We shall probably have, an airyet any surprise ly protected by they with nuclear weapons against a powBut it takes about two years to com-- " beginning to vyondef how firm our borne alert for some of SAC's planes will to retaliate will be in the future, er which also has such weapons within the next year. But this is explete such a job and although we when have to a must for its local Soviet such have projects for agchallenge construction, primary targets pensive and it is a great strain on the of forces be to nuthe " a here again we see :in the next gression might air crews as well as the planes if it replied by clear massacre of half our people! a condition of extreme vulnerhas to be kept up indefinitely. How- country being attacked. Otherwise attaclcer is murthe both attack.committing Maybe by4he time you've read ability to sneak ever, we do not have to keep it up To be sure of smashing hardened this far, you are beginning to wonder, der and suicide. . indefinitely, because we have another missile bases, the Soviets will have too. The facts I'vepresented aren't means of putting nuclear striking to produce "ground bursts" very he answer to the Soviet missile pretty. But they indicate what the power into moving bases. close. to the surface. Such bursts suck U.S.S.R. could do to us and to our threat is a very simple one: we We can use the sea for this vital friends. 7 are going to create and expand our up vast quantities of matter into the purpose." .N The other side of the story is what nuclear striking power" in a form fireball, producing maximum radioIndeed, we are doing that already. we can do to them. which cannot be destroyed by suractive fallout over a wide area. If as . The, Navy's 14 attack aircraft car-That's been the only checkrein on riers pack a powerful nuclear punch many as 200 or 300 such H explosions prise. We are going to have a deterSoviet aggression since the cold war were detonated in the United States, rent force continuously capable of in their heavy-striaircraft, which lohalf never moment been a at least our population might can deliver nuclear weapons to any began. There's wiping out the Soviet Union, so since 1945 that the men in the Kremcated and organized that the Kremlin well be killed or lastingly damaged target , within 1,500 miles of the carlin weren't ready to use force and can never hope to destroy it in any , rier's deck. We are building more by radiation. terror to accomplish their purposes; sneak attack. fallout shelters (as carriers and improved bombers" to of been the sneakbe fear will in Therefore there no restrained, by they've suggested by Dave Garroway operate Jrom them.. 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