Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known to be designing the Inertial Guidance system of the Navy's 1,500-mile Polaris missile. These scientists say carefully that "efficiency of the equipment is known to have become even greater than in 1953." When the U.S.'s first rocket-powered, space-tunneling ICBM rises on its maiden test flight some time this spring, the chances are that a tiny, precocious descendant of M.I.T.'s 1953 navigator may be at the throttle...
...Paper Factory. R-W makes none of the actual hardware for the ICBM program. What it does is act as technical boss for a project rated twice as complex -and twice as costly-as World War II's Manhattan Project. With Major General Ben Schriever in overall command (TIME, April 1), R-W acts as his technical staff overseeing the 220 major companies in the ICBM missile program. So secret is the job that R-W's green-and-pink headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport is among the most closely guarded plants in the nation. So complex...
Made to Order. Their technical reputations grew so fast that when the Government asked the late great Mathematician John Von Neumann to set up a committee to study the future development of strategic guided missiles, Ramo and Wooldridge were picked as members. The committee decided that the ICBM could be built, turned over its report to the Government which felt that it was too big a job for one company or for the Air Force to handle alone. What was needed was a unique setup-a new civilian technical group that could work under the Air Force and supervise...
...support his proposals, Flanders charged that the American public was "fascinated with numbers," whereas "a dozen well-placed bombs would suffice" to cripple Russia. He called ICBM's "unnecessary," because of the effectiveness of intermediate missiles launched from West Europe. Opposing German rearmament, he said it "stopped dead" any possibility of German unity...
Since the future of our country lies in the capabilities of dynamic men like Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, I read with extreme interest your April 1 cover story. The Atlas ICBM will be successful for the simple reason that Ben Schriever and his associates possess a fighting will...