When
President Dwight D. Eisenhower received his first report on the SIOP 62 (for
fiscal year 1962), he commented that it “frighten[ed] the devil out of me.” An
excellent history of the creation and evolution of the SIOP, including many
declassified documents, is available from the National Security Archive
website: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/index.htm#1.
In the documents section, see Document
28: Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, History & Research Division, History
of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff: Background and Preparation of
SIOP-62, n.d.,
available from: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/SIOP-28.pdf.