Where is the gap?

Abstract

In 1960, John F. Kennedy ran against Richard Nixon in an extremely close US presidential election. Kennedy, an adroit politician if ever there were one, made the ‘missile gap’ into his major campaign issue. After his successful election, this disingenuous issue was never heard from again; the gap was suddenly gone. We were recently confronted with a gap of a different nature or rather lack of one. Our riddle lay in figuring out, ‘where is the gap’.