Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy, at $11.7 billion, get slight increases over fiscal 1960, the Air Force, in its change to emphasis on missiles over rockets, takes a cut of $318 million, to a level of $18.6 billion. But with that money, the Air Force will be able to buy 72 more Atlas and 50 more Titan missiles, bringing its intercontinental ballistic missile force to a total of 270 by the end of 1963. Also scheduled for the Air Force: $350 million for 15 test models of the solid-fuel, second-generation Minuteman missile (see SCIENCE...
...white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these strange goings-on mark the development of the Minuteman, the solid-fuel missile that its proponents confidently expect will ultimately replace the liquid-fuel Atlas as the U.S.'s standard ICBM...
...tests, the shots would have obvious military value. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from their bases near the Caspian and Aral seas, they would be testing at 7,700-mile range plus as compared with the best 6,300-mile range of the U.S.'s Atlas, hence nailing down a longer strategic reach. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from Kamchatka at 3,800-mile range, they would at least be testing out their capabilities in a range bordered by such major U.S. naval bases as Pearl Harbor, Guam and Midway...
...Bunker's action came none too soon. The Titan, on which the U.S. has spent some $1.2 billion to date, is in trouble. After four preliminary successful shoots (none beyond the first stage), the missile designed to be more sophisticated than Convair's Atlas has not been able to get off the pad for seven months...
...accidents; another nine have been damaged, and of the nine, only two of the birds could be put back into flight condition. The accidents did not stem from any basic flaw in design. Most of the troubles came from unrelated, random-type failures that plague every missile, including the Atlas, which failed five times in a row earlier this year before the bugs were taken out. The big problem is that Martin has had not only routine troubles but so many plain, ordinary goofs. Among them: a Titan suffered ruptured tanks and ripped skin at Denver in August, when workers...