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Diversified Arsenal. But it was Chief Witness McElroy who dropped the week's bombshell. Only days after insisting that there was no missile gap, he told the Senators that in the early 1960s the U.S.S.R. will be ahead of the U.S. in operational ICBMs by a substantial margin, perhaps...
McElroy took pains to stress that the ICBM gap will be temporary, and that while it lasts it will not mean a real defense gap. The U.S.. he pointed out, has and will have a "diversified" arsenal, with various means of delivering nuclear retaliatory power...
More than token measures must be taken to decrease the gap which exists between Quincy as planned and the Houses as they are. Otherwise the present Houses will face a permanent disadvantage in recruiting freshmen, and students living in them in the future will be victims of a gross and unnecessary inequality. More than a little money should be forthcoming in the very near future to finance physical improvements in all the existing Houses...
...voguish term "missile gap" unfortunately seems an accurate summary of our position compared to the Soviets'. According to our Secretary of Defense, Neil McElroy, there is little need to worry; we are adequately supplied with the latest weapons. But the Soviets claim they are already mass producing ICBM's; Senator Stuart Symington has introduced figures which reveal a large Soviet lead; Werner von Braun reports that we are three years behind the Russians in developing our missiles, and intelligence estimates themselves show that the United States is soon going to fall well behind the U.S.S.R. in its missile arsenal...
Those who mitigate the danger of the missile gap argue that the aggressor would need more missiles than his opponent. For an aggressor presumably would initiate a mass attack only if he calculated that he could avoid being devastated in retaliation. To do this he would need to wipe out his opponents' missile arsenals, besides his cities, and this would necessitate expending a large number of rockets to allow for underground installation and inaccurate firings. The United States, it is thus argued, would not need as many missiles as the Soviet Union, for we require only enough to discourage their...