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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... reasons , any achievement of the new stockpile goals , as we now call them , will probably be a long - term proposition stretch- ing out over a number of years . An important procedural change , known as the variable confidence level ...
... reasons , any achievement of the new stockpile goals , as we now call them , will probably be a long - term proposition stretch- ing out over a number of years . An important procedural change , known as the variable confidence level ...
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... reasons , any achievement of the new stockpile goals ( as we now call them ) , will probably be a long - term proposition stretching out over a number of years . An important procedural change , known as the " variable confidence level ...
... reasons , any achievement of the new stockpile goals ( as we now call them ) , will probably be a long - term proposition stretching out over a number of years . An important procedural change , known as the " variable confidence level ...
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... reason to ex- The Soviet Union might engage in a pre - emptive nuclear strike . ver , it is just hard for me to envision a maior war which would ter all , a war between this country and the Soviet Union . lasting years . conventional ...
... reason to ex- The Soviet Union might engage in a pre - emptive nuclear strike . ver , it is just hard for me to envision a maior war which would ter all , a war between this country and the Soviet Union . lasting years . conventional ...
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... reason- ably early period of time ? Well , I don't know of anyone , Mr. Chairman , who can assure you or anybody , first , that the war will not remain conventional , and second , I would hope that we could reach early determinations in ...
... reason- ably early period of time ? Well , I don't know of anyone , Mr. Chairman , who can assure you or anybody , first , that the war will not remain conventional , and second , I would hope that we could reach early determinations in ...
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... reasons why this is the case : Stockpile policy is developed in an interdepartmental process , is not available for ... reason to believe that the structure and the nature of the mechanism , currently in use , will tend to discourage or ...
... reasons why this is the case : Stockpile policy is developed in an interdepartmental process , is not available for ... reason to believe that the structure and the nature of the mechanism , currently in use , will tend to discourage or ...
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Administration aluminum Annual Materials Plan ASARCO assumptions ator PROXMIRE basis beryllium budget Chairman civilian tier Committee on Defense commodities common defense CONGRESS THE LIBRARY copper cost Defense Production Defense Production Act developed disruption domestic economic stockpile emergency eral essential civilian estimates Federal Preparedness Agency Ferro funds going Government GROSSHANS impact increase interagency judgment LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS long tons major materials policy ment methodology mining industry National Commission National Security Council nator needs nuclear options peacetime percent period pile planning factors political reliability President priority question ral BRAY release response rials rutile Senator PROXMIRE shellac short tons sources specific STAATS stockpile goals stockpile objectives stockpile planning stockpile policy strategic and critical strategic stockpile STRAUSS substitution Supplies and Shortages three-year tion United wartime requirements William Proxmire World War II
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Page 43 - 5(b) permits such release on order of the President in time of war or during a national emergency with respect to common defense proclaimed by the President. In 1965, the Attorney General was requested to rule on the release of copper from the stockpile at a time when the copper industry was threatened by both disruption of supply and price escalation.
Page 43 - Section 5(a) provides that a release of material from such a stockpile may be made by a Presidential order at any time when, in his judgment, such release is "required for purposes of common defense.
Page 1 - OF THE UNITED STATES, JOINT COMMITTEE ON DEFENSE PRODUCTION, Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to recess, at 10:05 am, in room 5302, Dirksen Senate Office Building,
Page 101 - the necessary legislative and administrative actions to develop a comprehensive strategic and economic stockpiling and inventories policies which facilitates the availability of essential resources,
Page 45 - to support military requirements and the basic civilian economy during periods of extended conflict and when normal foreign supplies of these materials are disrupted. By maintaining appropriate levels of these materials in the stockpile.
Page 85 - Bennett, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials of the House Armed Services Committee. The
Page 3 - the National Security Act of 1947, the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of 1946, the Defense Production Act of 1950, the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950,
Page 43 - necessary legislative and administrative actions to develop a comprehensive strategic and economic stockpiling and inventories policies which
Page 83 - The committee will stand in recess. [Whereupon, at 12:51 pm, the committee recessed subject to the call of the Chair.] 1
Page 37 - In the interest of saving time, if I may, I would like to have the entire statement submitted for the record,