The intelligence since the Discoverer flights revealed that the Soviets had only a few crucial targets to hit. They included forty-six bases for the Soviet air force’s nuclear-armed bombers, twenty-six staging bases (where Soviet planes would stop for refueling on their way to the United States), and sixteen Soviet ICBM sites (with two “aim points” for each site, to maximize the chance of destroying them), for a total of eighty-eight targets in all.
