Missile Math and the Nations Defense Debate
In a Senate subcommittee hearing Rep Craig Hosmer presents a three page paper on missile math detailing how Russia may surpass the US in ICBMs and large yield warheads. The Rand bomb damage model suggests 92 percent destruction of US missiles, provoking calls for more ICBMs and anti Soviet systems. The Pentagon challenges key assumptions, arguing USSR warheads are smaller and the US could lose less than projected by 1972. Ernest Borgnine stars in a Hollywood pilot film, Binly and the Kid, with Frankie Michaels.