Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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∙The hard-based Air Force Titan ICBM, originally conceived as a back-up weapon in case of the failure of Atlas, offers little advantage now that Atlas is operational. The Titans programed for U.S. missile defense could be replaced by a beefed-up Atlas production schedule at an immediate...
∙The anti-bomber Bomarc B missile system, like its predecessor Bomarc A, will likely become obsolete before it is operational (two or three years). It also overlaps the role of manned interceptors (F-102, F-104,F-106). In the light of the Soviet jump over bombers to ICBMs...
∙The SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System) electronics net, designed to spot incoming enemy bombers for Bomarc and other antiaircraft weapons, has already cost $1.2 billion, is not yet fully operational. In the 1961 budget, SAGE requests additional funds to harden (encase in concrete) some of its installations...
∙In the air-atomic age, the pushbutton big wars as well as the brushfire small wars must be fought with forces-in-being, cutting sharply the utility of the civilian reserves that were so effective in World War II and Korea. Active reserves of all three services are in...
THE ATOM High Price of Suspension For 13 months President Eisenhower's Administration has imposed a voluntary ban on nuclear testing while negotiating with the Russians at Geneva on how to set up international controls-and the ban has been extended to Dec. 31. In U.S. atomic weapons laboratories...