Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operational readiness. The newest member of the Air Force missile family was born four years ago. when the nation's hopes for a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile were carried by hard-to-handle, liquid-fueled rockets still in the development stage. Even then, before such giants as Atlas and Titan were ready to go, cold war planners worried that the massive, complex installations demanded by liquid fueling made tempting hot war targets. What was needed was a smaller, mobile missile that could be easily hidden and instantly launched...
...miles) solid-fueled missile. The Air Force went to work on Minuteman, designed to be fired some 6,000 miles from bases in the continental U.S. Like Polaris. Minuteman packs a half-megaton punch (only one-third of the explosive load of the fully developed, liquid-fueled Atlas and only one-fifth of the giant warhead of the liquid Titan). Like Polaris and the Army's tactical Pershing missile, Minuteman is cheaper and far simpler to handle than its liquid-fueled predecessors, requires a much smaller crew. Once built and armed, it can be stored indefinitely, countdown-ready...
...Paloma on the Yukon. Spanish-born Father Llorente decided to be a priest when he was seven, joined the Jesuits at 16. "I wanted to be a missionary," he says. "I just put an atlas in front of me and I spotted Alaska. A kid feels very holy. I thought, 'Christ died for me on the Cross, so I'll die for him in the snow.'" (Segundo's brother Armando, also a Jesuit missionary, is serving in the sun as a student adviser in Castro's Havana University...
...seven: B-52, Titan, Atlas, Minuteman, Polaris, Skybolt (an air-launched ballistic missile), and the A³D, an H-bomb carrier plane...
...Convair Division, was named president of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., a subsidiary of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp. A World War II fighter pilot (his bag: 15 Japanese aircraft, including one bearing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto), Lanphier joined Convair in 1954, became key man in long-range planning for Convair's Atlas missile program. But his blunt criticism of the Administration's defense effort and sharp attacks on rival missilemakers provoked General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace to ease him out. On his own, Lanphier stumped the country, pleading for increased spending for missiles, decided to work outside the defense field, took...