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...three years. To date, the Russians are known to have test-fired as many as five ICBMs, have scored at least one hit on a target at a 3,400-mile range; the U.S. has test-fired four models of the Air Force's Convair ICBM Atlas, has scored two hits at a programed initial 500-to 600-mile range. Atlas, U.S. missilery's prime weapon (cost: about $4,000,000 apiece) is fueled with a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene, is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead of megaton dimensions at a speed of about...
...110A, in the works for more than two years, is the natural successor to the Boeing B-52 (now replacing the long-range B-36) and an advance on Convair's B58 Hustler, a Mach 2 medium bomber (not yet operational). Both the B-52 and B58 require refueling on intercontinental missions, while the WS-110A should be able to fly from Chicago to Moscow and back without refueling. If the WS-110A prototype proves its worth, the plane could be in production in about five years, an important ace in the sky in the event that untried, untested...
...area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...
...Force's Atlas ICBM would be operational in two years, but he cast doubt on the value of his prediction by showing painful gaps in his information. Pointing to Defense Department claims that the Atlas program has been stepped up, Counsel Weisl asked Douglas whether the manufacturer, Convair, had been told to push ahead faster. Replied Douglas: "I believe so ... I cannot answer personally-of my own knowledge." (Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed the firm to speed up the Atlas program...
...Holaday's belief that the Atlas program is in pretty good shape, a more realistic estimate came in a letter to the subcommittee from a man with more knowledge of Atlas than any that William Holaday had displayed. Wrote James R. Dempsey, manager of the Atlas program for Convair: "The present planning of the Government for ... the Atlas as currently known to us is less than it could be, and if we correctly understand the Soviet accomplishments in the ballistic missile field, the present Atlas program will tend to widen rather than close the gap between...