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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). How do you stop an enemy missile? It's done, if at all, with NORAD, SAC, BMEWS, DEW, MIDAS and SAMOS...
...inflammatory sign: "We Want to Continue As We Have in the Past." Politely they asked the cops if they could march around the square, and politely they were told that this would be all right, as long as no one struck a law-breaking chord of Greensleeves or Foggy Dew...
...M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Lab was done the major U.S. work in developing radar. From M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Lab came advanced gyroscopic bombsights and the inertial guidance systems for the Polaris missile and nuclear submarines. M.I.T.'s Lincoln Lab worked out the U.S.'s DEW line early-warning system against attack by enemy aircraft, the SAGE system to coordinate retaliation, and the BMEWS system for warning against enemy missiles. At M.I.T.'s Millstone Hill field station at Westford, Mass., is the 84-ft. dish antenna that has bounced radar pulses off the planet Venus...
...purpose of such flights is well known to the Russians. Soviet trawlers carry out the same sort of missions off the coast of the U.S.; Soviet planes constantly probe the DEW line radars that reach from Alaska across Canada. And since the ferrets must come as close as possible to coastal defenses without leaving international airspace, their careful flight plans follow courses as rigid and regular as a railroad route. There was no doubt that the Soviets knew exactly where the Olmstead-McKone RB-47 intended to fly as it circled north. If Soviet radars had not been able...
...designed to supply heat and power for Arctic DEW-line outposts, had been running successfully and efficiently for 2½ years, had been shut down for overhaul for two weeks. It was equipped with every built-in safeguard, every "fail safe" device known to science. What went wrong with SL-1? Although technicians could stay in the building for only brief periods, everything they saw suggested that the impossible had happened: the reactor had suddenly boiled up in a runaway atomic reaction. In thousandths of a second, its water coolant had been turned into superheated steam that ruptured the reactor...