Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McElroy took pains to stress that the ICBM gap will be temporary, and that while it lasts it will not mean a real defense gap. The U.S.. he pointed out, has and will have a "diversified" arsenal, with various means of delivering nuclear retaliatory power...
...voguish term "missile gap" unfortunately seems an accurate summary of our position compared to the Soviets'. According to our Secretary of Defense, Neil McElroy, there is little need to worry; we are adequately supplied with the latest weapons. But the Soviets claim they are already mass producing ICBM's; Senator Stuart Symington has introduced figures which reveal a large Soviet lead; Werner von Braun reports that we are three years behind the Russians in developing our missiles, and intelligence estimates themselves show that the United States is soon going to fall well behind the U.S.S.R. in its missile arsenal...
...have no positive evidence" of any Soviet ICBM currently operational...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., $659.8 million, including the SAGE electronic air-defense system, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, the "White Alice" Alaskan communications system, ICBM guidance systems...
...Martin Co., $400.2 million, including piston-and jet-engined Navy patrol flying boats, the Titan ICBM and other missiles...