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At this points, very few in the CIA or the Air Force were willing to take these extraordinarily low estimates seriously. For one thing, the politics of the situation seemed clear: the Army and Navy competed against the Air Force for scarce budgetary resources; if the Soviets had only a few ICBMs in the works, that would deny the Air Force its chief rationale for building several thousand ICBMs and would, thus, leave more for the non-nuclear forces of the Army and Navy. Fred Kaplan, <cite>The Wizards of Armageddon</cite>, p. 166
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