Nation: Protection with Progress

Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay is another who seldom makes public speeches—and minces no words when he does. Last week, attending an Air Force Association convention in Philadelphia, LeMay said that the U.S., despite all Nikita Khrushchev's boasts, is well ahead of the Soviet Union in its stockpile of "superbombs," and could have, if it had wanted to, built a 100-megaton bomb "a long time ago.''

There was no doubt in LeMay's mind about the will and purpose of the U.S. people. Said he: "Never before in our nation's history have we as a people been more patient and more...