He did not, he liked to say, worry about the threat from Russia itself. That could be leveled with one strike. What worried him was the threat of domestic subversion, and he was convinced that if the secret Communist cells ever made a move against any American institution, it would be SAC. He thought the base security protecting his planes was virtually worthless. “The stupidest people we had in the Air Force were put in the Military Police,” he said. So he upgraded his Air Police.
