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...David J. Kuter of Dunster House and Fond DuLae, Wisconsin; Jeffrey K. Laurenti of Eliot House and Trenton, New Jersey; Stephen F. Lazor of Eliot House and San Antonio, Texas; Norman L. Letvin of Eliot House and Detroit, Michigan; Jon D. Levenson of Adams House and Wheeling, West Virginia...
Open Secret. Two years ago, NORAD had no way to locate either missiles or satellites. Now, under the prodding of General Laurence Sherman Kuter, 56, commander in chief of the Pacific Air Forces from 1957 to 1959, NORAD can do both. At Thule, Greenland, two powerful beams fan northward over the Arctic from four antennas, each the size of a 3O-story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile...
While NORAD estimates that it could knock out 70% of any attacking bomber force with interceptors and Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules and BOMARC missiles, it can do nothing at all to stop an enemy missile after it detects one. For that reason General Kuter, in flat disagreement with most Air Force brass, urges speedy development of the Army's controversial Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Says he: "We urgently need something, even though catching the enemy's missiles after he has thrown them and at the last minute is a poor way to play ball...
Some droned 30,000 ft. above Eastern population centers on fake bomb runs. Some roared in just 500 ft. above coastal waters. All radiated spurious electronic signals to confuse defense radar. In Colorado Springs, NORAD's commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, 56, sat in front of a giant battle screen in a windowless building, directing the simulated interceptor action that was taking place over 14 million square miles...
...years after Kuter got his star, the Ninth Air Force's Richard C. Sanders made brigadier general at 28, becoming the youngest U.S. general since the boyish brigadiers of Civil War and Indian war days. Sanders is now retired, lives in Washington...