then make snixon's announcement that the russians were coming. they are stronger than we are. they will be in paris in the morning kind of business. kennedy was taking advantage of this to charges that there was a missile gap. he was briefed on it, given a secret briefing and he stopped talking about it himself. he did not tell his other campaign supporters to stop talking about it. >> let me ask you, back then, you talked a lot about thompson and will rid others. it did they end up benefiting from building a missile? >> the scientific bernard realized that we did not have an aerospace industry in this country. we had an aircraft industry but not an aerospace industry. the aircraft companies were not capable of providing the expertise needed to overcome the technological problems. they had to create an aerospace industry. they had to get the expertise to do it. he was a product of caltech and then started his own company after building the first air-to- air missile for the air force at hughes aircraft. they spotted him and realized that he not only had the expertise to overcom