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Behind the politicking of the missile-gap debate that sputtered in Washington last week lay some troubling nonpolitical questions: Will the missile gap mean a power gap? What dangers will the missile gap bring? Does the Administration's defense program provide for adequate preparations to cope with those dangers...
TODAY there is no missile gap because neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. (so far as the U.S. knows) has any significant intercontinental ballistic missile capability. The U.S. has only three operational ICBMs-three Atlases on launching pads at California's Vandenberg A.F.B. The U.S.S.R. has more-ten, says one Washington guesstimate-but not enough to add up to a meaningful weight on the scales of power. By mid-1961, the U.S.'s total will be up to approximately 72 (four Atlas squadrons with ten missiles apiece, two Polaris subs, each carrying 16 missiles), and the U.S.S.R...
...force, the infantry, the surface warships, and submariners, the merchant marine-all have had their share of glory in the histories and novels of World War II. A noticeable gap is the one left by the men who fought in tanks. They have been mentioned, but seldom in a starring role. Yet their part was often crucial, and their death was often the most fearful-with the victims trapped in a flaming pyre that offered no escape. In Brazen Chariots, a South African major of the British Army, who fought in Greece and later in North Africa against Rommel, tells...
...Gates said the intercontinental-range missile gap, about which Democrats in Congress have been protesting, is being offset in other ways...
...expanding our missile program, putting missiles on our bomber force and bringing into operation Polaris submarines which we believe will offset any so-called missile gap, at least from the point of view of the validity of our deterrent," he said...