imply an extension of the traditional art of artillery. For
the purposes of this report, however, the argument appears to be largely
a semantic one. Such missiles do traverse space, they are guided through
space, and they employ the same engines and principles which are
presently used for purposes of scientific space exploration. While more
advanced "space" weapons may evolve in the future, the missile as we
know it today cannot very well be divorced from our thinking about space
and its practical uses.

Going on this assumption, and casting an eye in the direction of the
Iron Curtain, it is obvious that the Soviet Union is going all-out to
exploit space for military purposes.

Military men have known for years that the tremendously powerful booster
which the Soviets have been using to launch their massive sputniks was
originally designed to carry the primitive heavy version of the A-bomb
across continents.

If there was ever doubt of the extent to which the Soviets intend to
make space a selected medium for military purposes it was erased when
Premier Khrushchev made his address to the Supreme Soviet early in 1960.
He commented in part:

Our state has at its disposal powerful rocket equipment. The
military air force and navy have lost their previous importance in
view of the modern development of military equipment. This type of
armament is not being reduced but replaced. Almost the entire
military air force is being replaced by rocket equipment. We have
by now sharply cut, and it seems will continue sharply to cut and
even discontinue the manufacture of bombers and other obsolete
equipment. In the navy, the submarine fleet assumes great
importance, while surface ships can no longer play the part they
once did. In our country the armed forces have been to a
considerable extent transferred to rocket and nuclear arms. These
arms are being perfected and will continue to be perfected until
they are banned.[10]

While it is difficult to assess the actual extent of the Soviet
preoccupation with missiles, it has been reported that the Russians are
building upward of 100 IRBM and ICBM bases to be manned by about 200,000
men. Most of these, at least the intermediate range bases, are said to
be along Russia's Baltic coast, in East Germany, in the southern Ukraine
and in the Carpathian Mountains.[11]

In any event, the space age is clearly "here" so far as th