Document E Source: U.S. News and World Report, December 1957. MUST U.S. TAKE THE FIRST BLOW? The Problem of "Massive Retaliation" in the Missile Age IN TODAY'S BOMBER AGE It's 10 hours from Soviet bases to American cities. Warning systems can alert defenses, blunt any attack. American bombers on bases ringing Soviet Russia, alerted, can strike in massive retaliation. * RESULT: Stalemate. IN TOMORROW'S MISSILE AGE It's to be 35 minutes-at most-from Soviet missile bases to any point in U.S. Warning systems will be able to give next to no time for alert before the blow falls. Push a button in Russia, and 35 minutes later much of U.S. could be laid waste-with power to retaliate limited. RESULT: A growing question whether a policy of accepting the first blow may be the best one. Copyright 1957, U.S. News Publishing Corp.

Document E Source: U.S. News and World Report, December 1957. MUST U.S. TAKE THE FIRST BLOW? The Problem of "Massive Retaliation" in the Missile Age IN TODAY'S BOMBER AGE It's 10 hours from Soviet bases to American cities. Warning systems can alert defenses, blunt any attack. American bombers on bases ringing Soviet Russia, alerted, can strike in massive retaliation. * RESULT: Stalemate. IN TOMORROW'S MISSILE AGE It's to be 35 minutes-at most-from Soviet missile bases to any point in U.S. Warning systems will be able to give next to no time for alert before the blow falls. Push a button in Russia, and 35 minutes later much of U.S. could be laid waste-with power to retaliate limited. RESULT: A growing question whether a policy of accepting the first blow may be the best one. Copyright 1957, U.S. News Publishing Corp.