Bomber Gap - the cold war.?

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this is for school, could you guys tell me a little about the 'bomber gap' and like how it is in/related to the cold war. ill take idea's from people and turn it into a paragraph (which i eventually need) Unless you'll give me a paragraph, ILL CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER BY WHO HELPED ME MOST. thanks to everyone who is willing to help me

Answer 1

The US military and intelligence services estimated that the Soviet Union was developing a position of military superiority as the result of projections of greatly increased Soviet nuclear-capable bomber forces. It is true that Eisenhower doubted the assessment, and was proved to be correct once surveillance overflights (U-2s) collected photographic evidence that Soviet strength was far from the projected level.

The later "missile gap" also fueled the arms race for similar reasons, except in the area of missile-based nuclear weapon delivery systems. The US developed the nuclear triad consisting of bomber-based, ground-based, and submarine based nuclear forces to counteract what we perceived to be a Soviet superiority in intercontinental ballistic missiles. All that did was to prompt the Soviets to do the same.

The development of satellite based surveillance was a response to the need to develop an accurate assessment of Soviet strength.

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Bomber Gap

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Clearly nuclear weapons did not make conventional weapons obsolete as there were so many instances in which the conventional weapons were used. In Soviet doctrine and even U.S. doctrine for much of the Cold War the use of theater nuclear weapons was regarded as normal - a natural extension of the use of conventional forces, not a substitute. Whether this is realistic or not is another matter. It really isn't until about the 1970's that you see a shift away from this as nuclear weapons with intercontinental ranges became so common that mutual destruction in a nuclear exchange was virtually assured. By that time, the large conventional forces already existed.

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Bomber Gap - the cold war.?
this is for school, could you guys tell me a little about the 'bomber gap' and like how it is in/related to the cold war. ill take idea's from people and turn it into a paragraph (which i eventually need) Unless you'll give me a paragraph, ILL CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER BY WHO HELPED ME...

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...you "question" is a bit vague... ? what do you mean by a "Bomber Gap"...? During the (so called cold-war) the US had several different Strategic Air Command coverages for the Continental U.S. They included (at any one time) an "Air Wing" of B58's on Artic patrol... this group of Bombers would "hover" at a Fail-Safe point and in the event of a strike by the Soviet Union...they could be over Russian land in a few moments... Also "we" had an Air wing of B-52's in the air 24/7 with the same orders... Then... under the artic ice was one or two "Boomers"... SSBN missile submarines that would just hang out under the Artic ice and could launch at a seconds notice... there was a-lot of other stuff but I think this will help you...Ummm ?

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I had to read this
http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/bomber_gap.asp
just to find out what you meant, even though I lived through it and the following "missile gap" To the extent that it spawned the U-2 and the embarrassment of its being shot down, it influenced the cold war only in that Eisenhower doubted it.