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"How prepared are we if Russia should attack?" by George Fielding Eliot, in Look, vol. 14, no. 13 20 June 1950, p. 31-35.

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The sub-heading to the article reads, "A leading military expert analyses our defenses and finds America vulnerable at almost every point." Among the possible methods of attack which Eliot takes into account are "Sporadic one-way bombing attacks from bases on Soviet territory - a few possibly with atomic bombs"; "Seizure of Alaskan airfields by air-borne troops and subsequent development of bombing attacks against north-west US"; "Seizure of Iceland by amphibious operation and subsequent development of medium-scale bombing attacks against north-east US."