Word: attack
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sluggish Growth. Clearly the Democrats were driving toward a broad attack on the economic issue. In the eyes of the Joint Economic Committee's indignant Democratic majority, the Eisenhower Administration's "neglect" of fiscal policy had seriously hurt the economy. The majority report rapped G.O.P. emphasis on "tight money" as an economic stabilizer, urged renewal of the Truman Administration's "easy money" policies. Credit restraint by the Republicans, charged the report, had not only failed to halt price upcreep but had also slowed the growth of the economy. Giving themselves the best of the Korean war boom...
...went on last week, "that the Soviets are producing ballistic missiles at the high rate indicated repeatedly by Premier Khrushchev [250 ICBMs per year out of one factory]. It is, therefore, conceivable that within about two years they will have a sufficient stockpile to permit a massive missile attack on the U.S. . . . We will not have in full operation warning systems which will give SAC enough warning time to get the alert force airborne before it can be destroyed on the ground...
...bombs), plus about 90 supersonic B-58s. The theory of deterrence rests on the assumption that the enemy leaders will be rational, and the Administration argues confidently that Soviet leaders, faced with the prospect of getting hit by SAC, could not make a rational decision to launch a missile attack on the U.S., even with missile superiority...
There is no real argument about the power of SAC, backed up by the nuclear-armed fighters of the Tactical Air Command in Europe, to deter a Soviet attack on the U.S. this year. But earnest and patriotic men are haunted by doubts as to whether the U.S. can complacently rely on SAC to bridge the missile gap as it widens in 1961 and beyond, and whether the President's $41 billion defense budget for fiscal 1961 is an adequate response to the challenge of that gap. The critics do not argue that the 1961 budget fails to provide...
...most insistent worry is that sometime in the early 1960s the U.S.S.R. might be tempted by its edge in missiles to try to knock out U.S. retaliatory power with a surprise attack on U.S. bomber and missile bases. The warning by SAC's commander, General Thomas S. Power, that with a mere 300 ballistic missiles the U.S.S.R. could "wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes," is much to the point. General Power's answer to the threat-an "airborne alert" that would keep...