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Show m No? Well, thats what you got! And a powerful coalition of Members of Congress is frying to further reduce our defenses. COMPARATIVE MISSILE MEGATONNAGE began soon after the first Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when the U.S. removed its intermediate range missiles from England, Italy and Turkey. Since then the U.S. has been unilaterally disarming by cutting back on numbers and megatonnage of strategic weapons. As soon as the U.S. started cutting back, to achieve strategic military superiority. the U.S.S.R. started all-oAs the American Security Councils National Strategy Committee pointed out in its June, 1967 strategic balance report, prepared at the request of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee: UNILATERAL DISARMAMENT NEW CUBAN MISSILE CRISI9 . . . FLIGHTS DETECT NEW SOVIET SUB BASE CONSTRUCTION IN CUBA WHITE HOUSE WARNS RUSSIANS U-- 2 ... In the case of ballistic missile submarines, the Soviets have assigned priority to surpassing our U.S. Polaris fleet We know they are patrolling in areas off the coast of the United States, presumably with each battery of 16 missiles targeted on our cities." ut The preponderance of evidence points to the conclusion that the Soviet Union is succeeding in its massive drive toward strategic military superiority and that the United States is cooperating in this effort by slowing down its side of the arms race. ... ' 7 Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Congress ol the United States Report on Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Released July 16, 1970 . . . - t . , As the House Armed Services Committee said in its April 24, 1970 report, There has not been an arms race; the Soviets have' been running forward at full speed all by themselves. Secretary Laird summed up the unilateral disarmament trend on April 20, 1970 when he said, Thus, in the space of five years from 1965 to 1970 the Soviet Union has virtually quadrupled the total megatonnage in its strategic offensive force . . . In that same period the United States . . . reduced its megatonnage by more than ... 40 . DISARMAMENT LOBBY . . . While Secretary Laird has made strenuous efforts to alert America regarding its declining strategic strength, a powerful group of U.S. Senators and Congressmen has organized to force further reductions in defense expenditures. Largely due to their efforts, relative U.S. strength has continued to decline. In fact, the U.S. is now Number Two! (see chart) are part of, or vote with, this disOperation Alert report, which you can of the U.S. Senators up for armament lobby. They are identified in the order below. 45 on OPERATION ALERT is a national voter education program coordinated by the American Security Council. 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