Word: icbm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian claim seemed to carry little imminent menace anyway after Secretary Wilson, at his last-week press conference, pointed out in passing just what it was the Russians said: not that they had a supply of inter-continental ballistic missiles, but that they had proved the possibility of an ICBM. Could the U.S., a newsman asked, have made the same claim a year...
...Engine Charlie seemed to be saying, would go on working toward an operational ICBM (a test of the Air Force's intercontinental Atlas is scheduled for this week at Cape Canaveral), and leave the intercontinental chest-thumping to the Russians...
While developing an arsenal of ballistic missiles for retaliatory or offensive power, the U.S. is also working on defense against Russian ICBMs. Until recently, scientists and military men generally agreed that a nuclear-armed ICBM, hurtling toward its target at 15,000 m.p.h., would be an "ultimate weapon," against which a nation could do nothing to save its cities from destruction. Last week General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff, announced that the Air Force has developed a new radar system that could detect an oncoming ICBM as much as 3,000 miles away. Based on the ORDIR...
Much of this confident reaction was based on the status of the U.S.'s own missile program. Last week a second test model of the 5,000-mile ICBM, the Atlas, stood erect and gleaming on its launching pad at sunny Cape Canaveral, Fla., ready to blast off. (The U.S.'s first Atlas, launched last June, was blown up in midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have...
...result was a cut of about $5.5 billion from the Administration's $72 billion budget. But the cost of economy-at-any-price may have been high. In the year of the Russian ICBM. the 85th Congress lopped $2.4 billion from the $36.1 billion requested by the Defense Department, virtually scuttled the U.S. Information Agency (cutting its appropriations by $48 million to $96 million), passed a $3.4 billion foreign aid bill - about $1 billion less than President Eisenhower had deemed necessary to the security of the free world...