Jimmy Ling, a man for all weapons? He had some really great ideas and aircraft. This one, the SLAM was one of the great ideas.
A great idea indeed...if you were for total nuclear destruction.
I think the SLAM was designed to be a “middle-finger” weapon, launched only after a first strike was perpetrated against us, and we wanted to ensure that the Soviet Union was nothing but an irradiated wasteland, useful for no one.