Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Trevor Gardner, 48, crusading chief of Air Force research and devel opment, who quit in protest in 1956 (after 11 months in office) following a series of angry rows with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson over the funds then allotted to ICBM development; in Washington...
...table thumper like Holmes." Both an electrical engineer and a physicist by training, Mueller (pronounced Miller) has done notable and imaginative work in electromagnetic theory, missile guidance systems, deep space communications, microwave research, space-systems engineering and space payload design. He helped develop the U.S.'s first ICBM and the instrumentation for the nation's earliest space probes...
Even this qualified support for the Kremlin disappeared when, in August 1957, the Soviet Union test-fired its first ICBM and two months later launched Sputnik. Russian rocketry, Peking decided, for the first time in history gave the Communist camp military superiority over the West; the Reds must now seize the advantage by fomenting revolutions in underdeveloped nations, even at the risk of war. Instead, Khrushchev pursued a detente with the West. In 1958 he agreed to a moratorium on nuclear testing in the atmosphere (broken in 1961), partly designed to freeze out Peking as an atomic power. When...
...Despite the claims of some shelter supporters, the Civil Defense program has not presented Americans with an honest picture of nuclear war. Most of the literature sounds as if it were written for the London blitz, and fails to see the qualitative difference between the V-2 and ICBM. Cambridge, for example, distributes one book-let that was written in 1950 and discusses an atomic bomb the size of the ones used over Japan. Another booklet begins, "Remember grandma's pantry, its shelves loaded with food, ready for any emergency, whether it be unexpected company or roads blocked for days...
When that happens, said McNamara. "even if we were to double and triple our forces, we would not be able to destroy quickly all or almost all of the hardened ICBM sites. And even if we could do that, we know no way to destroy the enemy's missile-launching submarines at the same time." Thus, even though the U.S. remained superior in nuclear firepower, its superiority would not "preclude major damage...