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It has become widely recognized that the Soviet Union has superiority over the United States in many important measures of military strength. Warsaw Pact forces in Europe outnumber NATO forces three to one in tanks, and almost two to one in manpower and aircraft. In strategic nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union surpasses the United States by factors of 2 to 1 in megatons and 3 to 2 in payload weight. These disparities have become widely recognized by most observers in the United States. We are rightly embarked on a multibillion dollar effort to correct them over the next several years.
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Wigner, E.P. (1998). A Case for Civil Defense. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol B / 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58862-4_41
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