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...pound of weight. In the past, the U.S. nuclear lead has rested in great part on the superior yield-weight performance of its atomic devices. With the report on Red progress, scientists came to the inescapable conclusion that the Soviets are technically capable of producing just about any warhead in the U.S. arsenal. Moreover, in view of their yield-weight success, they might well be able to package one of their monstrous, 50-plus megaton bombs in a warhead tipping a missile well within known Soviet rocket-thrust capabilities...
...highly developed in-flight refueling techniques. Our carrier strike forces and land-based theater forces could deliver additional hundreds of megatons. The number of our nuclear delivery vehicles, tactical as well as strategic, is in the tens of thousands; and of course, we have more than one warhead for each vehicle...
...starting blocks. Everything the division owns can be carried by air except the barracks: 25-ton M41 tanks, antitank guns, Jeeps, the "mechanical mule" (a kind of motorized flatbed wagon), field kitchens, ground radar, and the 15-mile Honest John rocket, which can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. One company (300 men) is always ready to move out within an hour; an entire battle group (1,800 men) can be on its way in four. Every morning, every man on alert assumes he will be headed for combat before nightfall. He gets his bedding ready to be turned...
...efficiency of the Minuteman's warhead, for example, were to be doubled, the missile could be rigged to deliver a bigger bang; a decrease in weight of the current-strength warhead would allow an increase in the missile's range. The same effect would show up all along the line; a B-52 could carry twice as many improved 20-megaton bombs. The U.S. has many new weapons systems with nuclear warheads that have yet to be explosively tested. No ICBM, for instance, has carried a nuclear warhead out of the atmosphere and back again and demonstrated that...
Seeking a Scare. This meant a device of at least 100 kilotons (five times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), exploded neither underground nor in outer space, but probably mounted on a testing tower or dropped from a plane. It may have been a new, compact warhead for an ICBM missile like...