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...bombers. Said the President: "We are clearly capable of destroying an aggressor even if forced to absorb a first strike. Under these conditions, further substantial increases in our strategic forces would soon be of diminishing value." There are those who disagree-notably Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay and G.O.P. Presidential Aspirant Barry Goldwater-and there is likely to be an outcry in Congress for more funds...
...reliable in tests), 630 B-52 bombers and 720 B-47s. In "cross-targeting," as many as six missiles may be trained on a single target, with a wave of "follow-on" bombers ready to mop up if anything goes wrong. Says Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay: "If kiddie cars will do the job, we will use them...
Flown to Tinian on Aug. 5, 1945, to ride over Hiroshima with the crew of the Enola Gay, Laurence was bumped off the plane by Curtis LeMay, had to console himself by talking the copilot into keeping a log. Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...
...Government people wanted to discuss a secret airplane project, so secret that not even General Curtis LeMay, then boss of the Strategic Air Command, knew about it. That night, Kelly Johnson, head of the "Skunk Works"-Lockheed's supersecret project-development division-began clearing out a hangar. "I got 23 fellows," says Johnson, "and we went to work. We didn't even give it a project name; that's a better kind of security. Later, the fellows began calling it 'the Angel...
...Manageable Risks." Far more deeply doubtful was Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, who worried that the Russians, as a result of their 1961-62 atmospheric test series, might already be ahead of the U.S. in nuclear weapons development. "This bothers me," said LeMay. "And one of the things that I don't like is that, if this is true and they do know more than we do, they may know something that is vital. They may be able to pick up a weakness in our defense system that they can exploit." Insisted LeMay: "There are risks...