Word: icbm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Less and less under wraps, in recent weeks, is slim Ben Schriever himself, and the Pacific Coast has gradually become aware that he runs something called the Western Development Division, a $3 billion Air Force project for developing, testing and possibly operating the H-bomb-carrying, 5,000-mile ICBM. Consequently, the experts took notice last week when Ben Schriever made a progress report to a hard-boiled symposium of astronautics scientists in San Diego (see SCIENCE). The report: since 1954, when the U.S. stepped up its ICBM program, it has come such a "long way in the development...
...missiles come along as fast as expected-the U.S. aircraft industry will face some painful production cuts. But no planemaker expects missiles to outmode manned aircraft in this decade, nor do companies in the highly competitive industry expect to be caught napping when that day finally arrives. When the ICBM becomes strategic, the U.S. must have missile interceptors to stop it. But the ICBM is a long way from becoming strategic. And no one will predict that the planes coming off now will be the last of the line...
...Navy the development of all guided missiles that range farther than 200 miles (TIME, Dec. 10). In theory, this gave the Air Force control of the Army's "unproved" intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM)-the Jupiter-as well as final control over its own intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Just how furious the Army was, only relatively few could know-until last week...
...ATLAS ICBM will be test-fired within 18 months. Convair plans to launch its intercontinental missile (range: 5,000 miles) from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. into Caribbean and Atlantic firing range...
...history of the club and the longbow and the musket teaches that the ICBM will probably not be the "ultimate" weapon in the sense that no defense can ever be developed against it. But there will doubtless be a period of years, perhaps decades, when the ICBM stands as the supreme, unstoppable weapon. Should the missile standoff burst upon a world unprepared to think about the new meanings, the ICBM could cause explosive political tensions that might even trigger the missile itself. What is important, then, is for the U.S. to approach the age of the ICBM with some hard...