It made a profound impression on Borden, who saw the coming of modern rocketry as an end to the security America had previously enjoyed. The oceans no longer offered protection, as they had in the past. A Soviet bomber would require two and a half hours to hit targets in Europe; a rocket might cover the same distance in five or six minutes. He wrote a book on the subject, There Will Be No Time: The Revolution in Strategy, and believed as a matter of faith that we should move ahead as quickly as possible on the hydrogen bomb.
