Defense Industrial Base: Industrial Preparedness and Nuclear War Survival : Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session- ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Defense contracts |
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... answer is not obvious . People have given very good arguments from both sides , as you well know . When so much of it is regulated , and when you have the monopoly buyers and oligopoly sellers , some say that maybe it ought to in fact ...
... answer is not obvious . People have given very good arguments from both sides , as you well know . When so much of it is regulated , and when you have the monopoly buyers and oligopoly sellers , some say that maybe it ought to in fact ...
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... answer the argument that is raised based upon experi- ences during World War II , and indeed , in Vietnam , that during the time of evacuation , that is when a nation is perhaps most vulnerable . What is to prevent the Soviets from ...
... answer the argument that is raised based upon experi- ences during World War II , and indeed , in Vietnam , that during the time of evacuation , that is when a nation is perhaps most vulnerable . What is to prevent the Soviets from ...
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... answer is available from the intelligence community . If you look at the protection afforded by the extremely large number of bunkers in Moscow , it is very impressive . Senator PROXMIRE . Well , now , the cost of the proposal that you ...
... answer is available from the intelligence community . If you look at the protection afforded by the extremely large number of bunkers in Moscow , it is very impressive . Senator PROXMIRE . Well , now , the cost of the proposal that you ...
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... answers . Senator PROXMIRE . Congressman Mitchell ? Representative MITCHELL . Mr. Jones , one more question . Am I right in assuming that a number of variables will determine the decay rate of radiation - climatic conditions and ...
... answers . Senator PROXMIRE . Congressman Mitchell ? Representative MITCHELL . Mr. Jones , one more question . Am I right in assuming that a number of variables will determine the decay rate of radiation - climatic conditions and ...
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... answers to the kind of challenge that you have made here this morning . So we certainly will persist in trying to get some clear answers from them on what our civil defense posture ought to be . Thank you very much . [ See Additional ...
... answers to the kind of challenge that you have made here this morning . So we certainly will persist in trying to get some clear answers from them on what our civil defense posture ought to be . Thank you very much . [ See Additional ...
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Answer arsenal assessment assumed billion blast pressure Boeing bomber capability chips civil and industrial civil defense preparations committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost damage Defense Department Defense Industrial Base Defense Science Board Department of Defense destroy deterrence dispersal DoD Components economic effect equipment estimates evacuation excess capacity EXPEDIENT SHELTERS factors fallout foreign military sales GANSLER hardening Hiroshima implementation increase industrial defense industrial preparedness planning initiated IPPL JONES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS M-Day machine machinery materiel ment minibike missile mobilization nuclear attack nuclear war nuclear weapons peacetime percent plants posture potential prime contractors private sector problem procurement protection Question RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION recovery reduce Representative MITCHELL response Russian Secretary of Defense Senator PROXMIRE SLBM soil Soviet civil defense Soviet industrial Soviet population Soviet Union study report subcontractor surge survival targets tion U.S. forces U.S. industry United USSR weapons systems
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Page 195 - The CPSU has always held and now holds the class struggle between the two systems — the Capitalist and the Socialist — in the economic, political and also of course In the ideological spheres will continue. It cannot be otherwise, because the world outlook and class aims' of Socialism and Capitalism are opposed and irreconcilable.
Page 126 - Assuring Strategic Stability in an Era of Detente,' Foreign Affairs, 54 (January, 1976), 217.
Page 7 - the commercial market, when compared with the cyclical nature of defense business, and more recently, the post-Vietnam era of decreasing defense procurement has made defense business unattractive to many suppliers. Additionally, the myriad of government policies, and the restrictions of government practices, act as disincentives to many potential suppliers.
Page 56 - ... vulnerability has been reduced by deliberate policies, apparently adopted largely for military reasons, of locating three-quarters of new Soviet industry in small and medium-sized towns. The civil defense program also provides for evacuation of some industry and materials in time of crisis. In sum, the ability of US nuclear power to destroy without question the bulk of Soviet industry and a large proportion of the Soviet population is by no means as clear as it once was, even if one assumes most...
Page 198 - Grechko asserted that It was precisely the change in the correlation of forces in favor of socialism and the process of the relaxation of tension taking place on \ this basis which prevented the dangerous eruption of the war in the \ Near East from assuming dimensions threatening universal peace.
Page 195 - Is to achieve a power posture such that ". . .no question of any Importance In the world can be solved without our [Ie, Soviet] participation, without taking Into account our economic and military might.
Page 174 - The underlying reality is that at no point since the 1930's has the Western world faced so formidable a threat to its survival. As then, the military balance is deteriorating, but the trend in large measure goes unnoticed because the Soviets today, though expansion minded, speak in less bombastic and threatening terms than the Nazis did." ("A Testing Time for America,
Page 137 - The cost-reimbursement type contract is suitable for use only when the uncertainties involved in contract performance are of such magnitude that cost of performance cannot be estimated with sufficient reasonableness to permit use of any type of fixed-price contract.
Page 32 - We believe these Soviet preparations substantially undermine the concept of deterrence that forms the cornerstone of US security. We believe further that they have effectively circumvented the protection the United States thought it had obtained through the ABM Treaty. It seems logical to conclude, then, that these defensive preparations, combined with the increasing power of Soviet strategic offensive forces, have in fact destabilized the strategic relationship between the two nations.
Page 64 - SHELTER IN SANDY SOIL MADE OF ANNULAR BRUSHWOOD FASCINES: (1) FASCINES: (2) LAYER OF COMPACTED CLAY 3-5 cm THICK: (3) SOIL LAYER 70-80 cm THICK Figure 7.