Word: abm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to intelligence reports, Soviet Russia is even now beginning to deploy a defense system designed to protect its major cities against attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles. American military men want the U.S. to counter by installing a vast anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system of its own. The Administration hopes to avoid this and is attempting to persuade the Russians to enter an agreement under which neither the U.S. nor the Soviets would deploy ABMs; to that end, U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson is now holding talks with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. In London two weeks ago, Kosygin made a press...
What is more, Johnson has postponed final decisions on two programs that could prove astronomically expensive. He will not make up his mind on building an antiballistic missile (ABM) system for the U.S. until Washington's new ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson, has had a chance to determine just how effective the new Soviet ABM network really is. Nor will he decide at this time whether to go ahead with a supersonic transport for the U.S., even though Boeing has already been selected as the designer; instead, funds for continued research will be supplied on a month-to-month...
...timed nuclear blast, destroy enemy missiles coming in at 17,000 miles an hour. "Traffic handling" refers to a system that prevents a flock of U.S. anti-missile missiles from blowing up each other as they climb to find enemy weapons. "Decoy discrimination" is a system that keeps the ABM from exploding harmlessly on contact with phony missiles and other chaff shot along with an attack. "Blackout effects" are caused by nuclear explosions of ABMs attacking an enemy bombardment, disrupt sound and electronic impulses in the gear that is tracking the incoming missiles...