Word: icbm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsible for the nation's ICBM program are both ex-Air Force officers. Convair's Atlas team is headed by J. R. ("Jim") Dempsey, 37, West Pointer and onetime Air Force lieutenant colonel; Martin's Titan group is bossed by Howard Merrill, 38, a former Air Force captain. Both men made their reputations after going into industry, not before. They recognized, as do many career officers, that promotions are slow in peacetime, and a bright young man can often do better for himself-and in some ways, better for his country-by putting aside his uniform...
...missiles (range: 1,500 miles) in its "silos," be capable of cruising for months on its water-cooled nuclear reactors, launch its birds without. surfacing (TIME, March 3, 1958). Its mission: to provide a mobile undersea missile base that Russia can never count on knocking out in a sneak ICBM attack...
Meanwhile, the space vehicle, the Air Force's Atlas ICBM, will get a series of tests, with animals riding the capsules in some flights. After Astronauts and vehicle have checked out so that chances of successful probe and return are 96% to 98% -the same as the maiden flight of any experimental aircraft-the day of flight will be set. On that day the first man will be designated...
...Such businesslike activity shared Canaveral spotlights with successful tests of the solid-fuel, second-generation Titan ICBM and the air-launched (from a B-47) Bold Orion experimental IRBM (TIME...
...Thor ICBM, and the second stage, a 19-ft. liquid-fuel job built by Lockheed, apparently worked well. Watchers assumed that the bird, which consisted of the 1,300-lb. second stage with a 40-lb. instrument payload, had gone into orbit over the South Pacific...