SEA-BASED MISSILE DEFENSE

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• Publication Date: September 21, 1967
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Septen2ber .21, 196T CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE
But you-have to read the small print
below the headline to discover that peo-
ple r~rill still choose President Johnson
over evely other passible candidate now
iSeing talked about--Republican or
Democratic.
We: saw some polls put out by a major
]a,bo:r organization some months ago
which showed the President ahead of
evervone else, yet the press played that
one a,s showing the President had fallen
be=hind.
Well, in New Jersey we now have some
positive proof about just who is leading
whom. '
A recent poll taken by a leading public
opinion expert, John Bucci, for the Re-
publican State Committee of New Jersey,
show=s Lyndon B. Johnson outpolling six
other Democratic and Republican con-
tenders.
The poll showed the President ahead
of Ni;KOn by 9 percent, ahead oP Romney
by 15~ percent, ahead of Rockefeller by
15 percent, and defeating Reagan by a
solid. 1D percent.
The poll _also showed that b2 percent
of the voters in New Jersey are Demo-
crats--although I think that is a low
estimate; 3D percent Republican, and
the rest Yndependent.
Here we have a Republican polltaker
pltblifily telling us that President John-
son is going to beat all comers. And even
though Mr. Bucci is a Refiublican, I
believe him.
I seise believe that whatever news-
papers are now saying, they will be sing-
ing adifferent tune when Lyndon John-
son goes to the country with his story of
the most magnificent legislative record
in the history of American government.
When the people get. the clear picture
of what Lyndon Johnson has done for
business, what he has done for the
schoolchild, what ho has done for the
farme=r, what he has done for the city
and the countryside, we will not need
any polls to count our victory in Novem-
ber 1i9G8. We are just-going to let the
computers total up the smashing plural-
ity which Lyndon Johnson and the
Democratic Party are going to roll up.
I insert in the RECORD an article from
the Philadelphia Bulletin of September
19 dE:scribing the results of a recent
Republican poll of New Jersey voters:
JOH]XaON LEADa VOTE POLL IN NEW JERSEY
Trenton-(UPI)-Prcaldent Johnson has
outpolled six other Democratic and Republi-
can presidential passibillties in a survey pf
New .)jersey voters conducted by a profession-
al pollster Yor the Republican State Commit-
tee.
A Republican candidate, however, still
would have a good chance oY winning the
stE~te, iCho pollster Pound.
Mr. Johnson was selected by 26 percent
oY the 000 voters interviewed in all the state's
21 counties. His nearost'rlval was Sen. Robert
F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) , the only other Demo-
crat in the survey, who drew 19 percent of
trio votes.
'I'ris others, all Republicans, were Former
Vice President Richard Id. Nixon, 17 per-
cent; Gov. George Romney, oY Michigan, it
percent; Gov. Nelson Raokeieller, of New
York, 31 percent; Gov. Ronald Reagan, oP
California, 7 percent; and U.(3. Sen, Charles
Percy (R-Ill.) 4 percent.
'rho poll; taken last month by E. Sohn
Burci, of Public Cplnion Surveys, Swarth-
more, Pa., indioated that 62 percent oY the
voters in New Jersey are Democrats, 30 per-
cent Republicans and 18 percent indepond-
SEA-BASED MISSILE DEFENSE
(Mr. ANDERSON of Tennessee (at the
request of Mr. ALBERT) was granted per-
mission to extend hs remarks at this
point in the RECOAA and to include ex-
traneous m~tter.>
Mr. ANL>ERSON of Tennessee. Mr..
Speaker, olze of the more astonishing
features of this last decade and a half is
ilia relative equanimity with which na-
tions have accepted the flat military fact
that the power to decide their survival
or destruction lies with others. In the
realm of strategic wal?, the mightiest of
nations possess -the power-at hand, not
potential-to destroy any other state. Yet
none among them can presently defend
itself from strategic nuclear attack. We
confront oath other watchfully as
swordsmen in a small ring, each with a
terrible blade poised, none possessing a
shield. Defense becomes deterrence and
an uneasy peace prevails upon what
Winston Churchill termed "a balance oP
-terror."
Now we have long known that the
peace of mutual deterrence has in its
nature certain ominous features of in-
stability. First, the security from attack
of any one major power rests upon the
rational perception and decisions of all
the athel?s. The record of the practice of
nations provides us scant cause for faith
in the prevalence of such rationality. Es-
pecially disturbing is the fresh develop-
ment of a 11ucIear strike capability by a
nation ivhieh is simultaneously am-
bitious, internationally frustrated, des-
perately poor, sell-isolated from the
world community, and demonstrably
paranoid.
Second, the configuration of destruc-
tive power places a decisive advantage
with any contender who could deliver a
disabling surprise attack on his adver-
sary. Where you have a confrontation of
swords wit]zout shields, protection and
conquest are achieved by the same act-
disabling yc>ur opponent. This condition
tempts the ambitious and intensifies pre-
emptive considerations,by the defensive.
- So it is not surprising that both we
and our potential adversaries seek to
develop an a=ffective shield. And up until
now, at least, we have shared the com-
mon frustration of technological inabil-
ity to create a defense that could mean-
ingfully reduce the impact off a deter-
mined ballistic missile attack.
Now we have reason to believe that our
strongest potential adversary is deploy-
ing a ma:rglnalIy effective, terminal
phase antiballistic missile system around
his cities and strategic weapon sites. We
believe that we can saturate, confuse,
and breach hfa new defenses without
great difllculty. We certainly also are
under great pressure to,deploy a termi-
nal phase rnissile interception-type de-
fense for our own most important and
vulnerable potential targets. But we
have hesitated in this costly commit-
ment because we suspect that by the
completion date of our proposed defense
system, it too will be obsolete.
We havo now committed ourselves to
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the deployrnent of a "thin" land-based,
terminal-phase missile-interception sys-
tem oriented primarily toward a total
war threat from Communist China. This
ABM system is conceived to be a mini-
mal unit to be augmented or changed as
the situation demands. I submit that
SABMIS offers a clear and feasible im-
prtlvement of our strategic position for
both defense and deterrence against ev-
ery potential adversary and against va-
rious possible threats of limited nuclear
war directed at either ourselves or our
all=ies. Its flexibility and mobility offer
capabilities of concentration and disper-
sal. to meet a variety of challenges and a
:wide range of threats not in any way af-
fected by our presently planned terlni-
na1-phase system.
Mr. Speaker, I submit the following
articles by the distinguished military af-
fairs analyst, L. Edgar Prins, concern-
ixig the BABMIS:
[From .the South Bay (Calif.) Daily Breeze,
June 30, 1967]
INTERCEPTION AT BEA EYED
WnaxzxcxoN.-Navy planners believe it
would make sense to put anti-missiles at
sea, so that enemy IOBMS could be destroyed
far Prom the continental United States.,
Accordingly, the Navy-with the blessing
of the Doienae Department-has asked in-
dustry to join Sn a study it hopes will lead
to the design of a ship-based miasSle inter-
cept system.
The Office of Naval Research on June 1
advertieod Por help, as Follows:
'"Firms and organizations having demon-
strated capabilities For performing s study
of ballistic missile intercept systems and
subsystems are Snvited to submit informa-
tion regarding their qualiflcatlons.
"Selected firms and organizations will be
oonaidered Yor participation fn a study pro-
gram leading to preliminary design of a soa-
based ballistic missile intercept system (SAB-
MIS) it ie expected- that a study effort
in this field will cover asix-month period."
The Navy got 31 responses from industry.
After reviewing them, it selected six firm:; or
teams of firms, to submit proppsals Yor trio
study. The firms wore gluon classified brief-
fogs and have until July 19 to turn in their
proposals,
It is understood that one-and possibly
twc>--firma or teams will get the contract for
the study, probably by Aug. r or soon there-
after. The Navy hopes to have the study com-
pleted by next Fab. 1.
The Navy. has declined to Identify the
six farms Sn the competition.
Navy planners say that the beauty of a aea-
based anti-missile system !s that the U.S.
could knock down enemy rockets long before
they approached the continental limits. This
is particularly important in this are of multi-
ple warheads.
Defense oftlcials have told reporters that.
the Navy's submarine-based Poseidon rocket
w11:f have several warheads.
It is understood that each of these thermo-
nucleat "bombs" could be directed to indt-
viduitl targets several hundred miles or more
apart.
[From the- Elgin (Ill.) Daily Courier-News,
Apr. 18, 1907. ]
PENTAGON EYES NEW MIB9ILEa
(By L. Edgar Prina)
WA6HINGTON.-Navy Secretary Paul FL
Nitze says the Pentagon is studying rieW
ofYenatve and dePenaive~balllatio missiles Yor
launching from both surface ships and sub-
marines to help meet ills potential SovieC
threat in the 1970'x.
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