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...size needed to destroy the U.S. without preparations that would be detectable by the U.S. Such a huge build up would require 1) heavy communications traffic, such as for readying hundreds of missile countdowns, 2) heavy forces movements which might not go undetected. Duration of such a buildup might be four or five days. And if such a buildup were reported to the U.S., it would, said McElroy, create "exactly the kind of a situation which the President of the U.S. at that time would have a very serious question posed for him . . . That is a description of a situation...
...planned production of ICBMs by mid-1963. Planning now calls for the deployment of 90 Atlas ICBMs and 110 Titan ICBMs in 20 squadrons of ten missiles apiece by mid-1963. The U.S., under the new proposal, would add 200 more Atlas ICBMs to the buildup. Cost over four years: about $2.5 billion, with a relatively small $500 million to come out of the fiscal 1960 budget as a first installment on buying the added striking power...
...production, guaranteed their suppliers against loss if they in turn would buy ahead. But many a steel user who had let his inventories get close to bottom was discovering that it was hard to rebuild them enough for strike protection. Allowing for the probable rise in consumption, the maximum buildup in inventories by midyear was expected to be only about 6,000,000 tons, just about what would normally be needed for current needs at that time...
...Khrushchev's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko added the Kremlin's characteristic rocket-rattling buildup for such a diplomatic mission. Said Gromyko: West Berlin is a threat to the peace, and if the West should try to force its way through a Berlin blockade, "the flames of war would inevitably spread to the American continent, for today's military techniques have virtually eliminated the difference between distant theaters of war and those close at hand...
...over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the first press conference of his premiership. Looking relaxed and chipper, and sporting a glistening gold peace-dove emblem in his lapel, the Soviet boss told 250 reporters in the wood-paneled oval room of the Kremlin's Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government had just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other...