In article vKKyb.541308$9l5.70736@pd7tw2no,
"Ed Majden" wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll"
Hmmm, isn't the idea to launch the interceptor missile BEFORE the
bombers reach their targets? What Soviet ICBMs and cruise missiles
had the accuracy to destroy hard targets when Bomarc enterd
service?

Fortunately we didn't find out what their accuracy was! If it was as
bad as you seem to suggest, what the hell were we scared iof them for.

Because something like 75% of them were targeted at *cities*, not
missile sites. And a two-mile miss with a megaton-class warhead on a
city isn't really a miss.

Long before this, V1 buz bombs and V2s hit London.

....and if three or four of them were carrying even small nukes, London
would have ceased to exist.

The first strike would have
been ICBMs in any event, not bombers.

Not in the late 1950s. The Soviets just didn't have that many missiles,
despite the "missile gap" silliness of the 1950s and 1960s.

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