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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instant Thrust. The Navy first hit full speed with the Polaris system early last year, after it ditched the idea of adapting the Army's bulky liquid-fuel Jupiter for shipboard use. As Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke said, the Navy needed "an IRBM with salt water in its veins." Burke picked peppery, redheaded Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 52, to run the Polaris program, tossed Raborn a bankroll of $37 million for a start. "Red" Raborn, who moves so fast that he will only drink instant coffee (and sometimes a Scotch-and-water), rounded...
...several years upon 1) development of hydrogen warheads lighter than present models; 2) improvement of solid fuels to get more reliability and longer range; 3) production of a fleet of new-design nuclear submarines, each equipped to store, transport and fire a big salvo. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke looks to test-fire the first Polaris this summer, to get Polaris operational before 1960. The Air Force also is interested in a solid-fuel, Polaris-type missile for its own land-based "second generation...
...Navy is giving top priority to solid-fuel shortcomings, hopes for a flight test of Polaris next summer or fall. Says Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke about Rear Admiral William F. Raborn, officer in charge of Polaris: "He is the only man in the Navy who has a blank check. All he has to do is say 'I want,' and he gets." If the faults can be whipped, even the most loyal Air Force birdmen admit that their lox systems will probably give way to solid fuels in the next round of missile development...
Fortunately, Wilson is retiring. Also, he is apparently out of step on this issue with his subordinates, including Admiral Arleigh Burke and General Maxwell Taylor, both of whom feel that brushfire conflicts, if crushed rapidly, can be contained...
...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles of the U.S. in action), retiring Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, Atomic Storekeeper Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson and an articulate handful of Navy brass, from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke to Atlantic Fleet Commander Jerauld Wright...