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Yet the Air Force was compelled to take these steps [programs ... on dispersal of bases and airborne alert of the bombers themselves] only after realizing … fortune

The Navy, in its new official line, had come full circle: from an abhorrence of city destruction in 1950 to its doctrinal glorification in 1958. The … fortune

Similarly, 20 years on, when some of Lyndon Johnson's advisers objected that bombing North Vietnam's factories and rail lines would not do much harm to … fortune

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 … fortune

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Why the Pentagon doesn't want you to know its bombers finally work. - By Gregg Easterbrook - Slate Magazine