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Besides such considerations, there is the real possibility that the ICBM is "the weapon least likely to be used." All parties in a war may decide to keep their birds in their nests, fearing with good reason the devastating effect of thermonuclear attack and retaliation against population centers. Such forbearance would be a missile-armed extension of the U.S. policy of deterrence now based on LeMay's bombers...
...warfare, every new weapon has brought forth a counter-weapon. Missilemen suspect-they even hope-that this will happen again. Their best hope is in atom-armed birds, whose fireballs may be more de-tructive in space than in the atmosphere. Some believe that they can even destroy an ICBM striking at 16,000 m.p.h. Such missiles can be tracked by their heat and ionized trails, and their trajectories determined. The "reaction time" will be frighteningly short-only a few minutes...
...First called the Atlas, from Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., which then owned Convair. The name was changed later to IBM, then to ICBM, to avoid confusion with International Business Machines Corp...
...ballistic missile in dragless space, is therefore more vulnerable to enemy attack. But it has advantages. Carrying a thermonuclear warhead, it steers by the stars. An amazing little instrument picks out a succession of stars, even in daytime, and navigates by them like a ship at sea. Unlike the ICBM, the Navaho can be instructed to zigzag and feint. When the Navaho nears its target, it can feel for the warmth of a darkened city...
...both in range, guidance and warhead. The Army is confident that after moderate changes it will reach to 1,500 miles. The Redstone is the reason why the Army has been given a crack at the IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles), which have the same urgent priority as the ICBM. The Army intends to carry Redstone by air. Says Lieut. General James M. Gavin, head of Army Research and Development: "We want to be able to put it in cargo airplanes along with all its auxiliaries, fly it to Thailand or the Greenland icecap, and fire it a couple...