Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planning of the Government for ... the Atlas as currently known to us is less than it could be, and if we correctly understand the Soviet accomplishments in the ballistic missile field, the present Atlas program will tend to widen rather than close the gap between the U.S. and Soviet ICBM capability...
Higher & Higher. Europe wanted reassurance that the U.S.. despite its vulnerability to Russian nuclear assault-whether by aircraft in the present or ICBM in the near future-would really risk its cities to save Europe if not itself threatened. But if NATO means anything, Europe's safety still depends on the U.S., and will for a long time to come. Without the U.S.'s retaliatory power, Europe would not long be safe on a continent alone with Russia, and Europe knew it. Britain had already made clear its willingness to accept enough IRBMs to stock four bases...
...distinguished audience of hypersonic-flight experts to deliver the prestigious Wright Brothers Lecture. For Speaker H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the honor was well timed. That morning Avco Manufacturing Corp. announced that it had devised a blunt-nose cone for the Air Force ICBM Titan. Originator of the blunt-nose concept: Dr. "Harvey" Allen, one of the most brilliant and colorful of the nation's flight scientists...
...military proposals for next week's summit conference. With the Sputnik, the establishment of IRBM bases in Europe has taken on an added significance for the U.S., as a necessary counter to the Soviet missile threat to Turkey, Europe and Britain, to say nothing of its ICBM threat to North America. Though final arrangements will be left for later negotiation (since the U.S. does not yet have an operational IRBM), the U.S. will offer missiles to any NATO members that want them, but nuclear warheads for the missiles will be held in U.S. custody "only a few feet" from...
...Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White (TIME, Nov. 25) served public notice that the Strategic Air Command is firmly and officially in the ballistic-missile business. The Air Force has decided, said General White, to shift "responsibility for the initial operational capability phase of both the IRBM and ICBM programs" from the Air Research and Development Command...