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...vehicle, but it was unmistakably an exercise in political muscle flexing, designed to impress the U.S., its allies, and the world's sideline countries with the spectacle of Soviet missile might. Viewed with cool reason, the Pacific shot represented no missile breakthrough. The U.S. Air Force's Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, already operational in small numbers, has flown more than 6,000 miles, has a potential range of 8,000 miles or more. And Atlas' accuracy, proved in several tests, is as close to pinpoint perfection as the Soviet Pacific missile. But once again, without altering...
...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...
...fuel that was Thiokol's first contribution to rocketry. It has grown into 84 smallish structures scattered over miles of desert, but it still reflects the basic simplicity that is solid fuel's chief advantage over liquid. The liquid-fuel rocket engines that push the Thor and Atlas must be static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps, tanks, valves and tubing. Instruments watch every part of their twisted intestinal tract and report to a thick-walled blockhouse protected...
...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...