inDEX
Brown as CJCS and, 377
Carter’s cancellation of, 392–393, 395
y-before-you-buy policy and, 368–369
JCS requests for, 262, 337, 341, 544
Reagan buildup and, 427–428
Rumsfeld on, 385
Schlesinger on, 374, 375
B–2 stealth bomber, 428, 496, 524
B–29s
to Britain in 1950, 118
ending war with Japan and, 45
modied for atomic bomb, 48
Pacic Ocean Area command support by, 32
as reinforcement of American airpower in Europe
(1948), 78
retirement of, 143
SILVERPLATE, nuclear-delivery system of, 72
Soviet targets and, 82, 91–92n89
U.S. bombing missions from China and, 37,
53–54n34
B–36s, 82, 143
B–47 medium range aircraft, 143, 248
B–50s, 82, 143
B–52s
bombing in Vietnam by, 295, 325–326
intercontinental, New Look defense budget and,
143
JCS requests for, 262
LeMay’s objection to cancellation of, 248
Soviets on ALCMs for, 380–381
transfer to Western Pacic (1965), 289–290
B–70 supersonic bomber, 248
Backre bomber, Soviet, 380, 381
Baghdad Pact, 190–194, 352
Baker, James A., III, 492, 496, 497, 511, 529
Ball, George W., 226, 232, 289, 294
ballistic missile defense (BMD)
McNamara on, 265
Reagan’s revival of, 433–438, 545–546
resource allocation controversy for, 181–182
Soviet Union and, 264, 338
Barrass, Gordon S., 357, 458
Baruch Plan, 62, 69, 160, 544
base force plan
collaborative development of, 501n25
force levels for FY 1950 compared to, 502n36
Powell and, 485–489, 501n29
Soviet Union collapse and, 548
START agreement and, 495–496
Batista, Fulgencio, 197
Baxter, James Phinney, 178
Bay of Pigs operation, 198, 213–216, 225, 542
Belgium, NATO and, 157, 259
Beneš, Eduard, 73
Berlin. See also West Germany
access rights to, 216–217
contingency plans for, 199–200
Live Oak plans for, 200–201
Nixon and Kissinger on solution for, 343
Soviet blockade of, 73, 77–78, 90n53
Berlin Task Force, interdepartmental, 217
Berlin Wall, 210, 218, 219–220, 481, 486
Bermuda conference (1953), 154
Betts Report (DOD, 1964), 265
Bevin, Ernest, 78
Bikini Atoll, atomic bomb testing at, 64
biological weapons, 480, 506, 509, 522–525
Bissell, Richard M., Jr., 170n123, 183
Black Hole organization, Saudi Arabia, 514
Blandy, William H. P., 63
Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management,
452
Blue Spoon (against Noriega government), 491–492
Blue Steel Mk1 missile, 254
Blue Streak air-to-surface missile, Britain’s, 253–254
body counts, for Vietnam War, 297
BOLERO-ROUNDUP plans for Continental inva-
sion, 10–11
bomb shelter programs, 1950s, 178
Bomber Command, Britain’s, 78, 117
Boone, Walter F., 194, 195
bottom-up review (BUR), Clinton’s, 488–489
Bradley, Omar N.
defense reorganization (1958) and, 184–185
as Eisenhower political supporter, 134–135
on ending the Korean War, 139–140
Far East tour by Johnson and, 102
increased role of CJCS and, 124, 539
JCS meeting at Naval War College (1948) and, 58
joins the JCS, 74
Korean War and, 103, 107, 109, 110, 128n56
MacArthur’s dismissal and, 115–116
on nuclear weapons for Europe, 119
Truman on NSC meetings and, 113
on U.S. involvement in Asian mainland wars, 290
Brezhnev, Leonid I., 340, 355, 357, 380–381, 382,
398–399
Britain. See also Bomber Command, Britain’s; Chiefs
of Sta Committee; Churchill, Winston S.;
United Kingdom
AAF on air-atomic missions from, 64
Arab-Israeli conict and, 191–192
Baghdad Pact and, 192–193, 194
Casablanca Conference and, 13–14
Communist attack against Korea and, 119
Desert Shield/Desert Storm and, 519, 522