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...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 14,000 m.p.h. to a target five miles in diameter at a 5,500-mile range. Atlas has 300,000 parts, is so thin-skinned that it must be pressurized to stand upright; its three engines, simultaneously ignited on the ground, can generate...
...Force has a "backup," or reserve ICBM, the Martin Titan, currently running twelve to 14 months behind Atlas. Titan is a two-stage, liquid-fuel missile with an Atlas-type nose cone and an Atlas-sized engine thrust that can power a hydrogen warhead more than 5,500 miles. Another advantage: Titan can be broken down into two parts for easier ground or air-cargo transportation. Titan has undergone static tests of its component parts, has not yet been tested as a complete weapons system, is not expected to reach test-flight status until fall...
State Senator Richard Richards, the fair-haired boy of young Democracy, fared scarcely better against Kuchel in Eisenhower's 1956 popularity contest. Idealists like Ray Simpson in the 18th C.D. spoke long and futile words about the hydrogen bomb and American foreign policy. The public delivered no mandates...
Macmillan had spoken in conscious awareness of strong political pressure. There has been mounting nervousness in Britain over the fact that U.S. planes carrying hydrogen bombs fly out of British bases. Such nervousness has prompted widespread demands for new East-West talks. In London, reported the Gallup poll last week, 51% of the population favor an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting, only 24% are opposed...
...Britain did not intend to meet his demands. He seemed cheerfully oblivious of the fact that his threatened break with Britain would mean that not just 40 but all 13,000 dockyard workers would be out of work. Mintoff shouted to cheering crowds: "If Britain comes against us with hydrogen or atom bombs...they will not be able to govern Malta against our people's will...