"Darrell A. Larose
Except there were no forward bases to deploy the Arrow from, nor did it
have air-to-air refueling capacity.

Bases no, but runways yes at various locations. The Bomarc hard site
was useless as it would have been taken out by an ICBM or cruise type
missile long before they got one off the ground. The bombers would have
come in as a clean up some time after the first strike. At the first sign
of trouble fighters would be scattered all over the country so survivability
was much better. I seem to have read somewhere that the airforce had
ordered or wanted 700 CF-105s. They were replaced by 66 old Voodoos and two
hard Bomarc sites after cancellation. Some replacement!