Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet concentration in the one-and two-megaton range was probably designed to develop better warheads for the plentiful Russian intermediate range missiles that now threaten Western Europe. Higher yield devices, including the 25-megaton warhead, could be carried by Russia's "second generation" ICBM, its first storable (but still liquid) fuel rocket, which is more economical and will become operational in quantity this year...
...Russians are already substantially ahead of the U.S. in the anti-ICBM field and, according to present estimates, will have a workable system before the U.S. They have already tested anti-ICBM devices at high altitudes and attempted interceptions of long-range rockets along their range in Siberia...
...allow an increase in the missile's range. The same effect would show up all along the line; a B-52 could carry twice as many improved 20-megaton bombs. The U.S. has many new weapons systems with nuclear warheads that have yet to be explosively tested. No ICBM, for instance, has carried a nuclear warhead out of the atmosphere and back again and demonstrated that after its high ride the warhead will still explode. No antimissile nuclear weapon has been tested in space against an incoming missile. U.S. military authorities attach much importance to improved tactical nuclear weapons...
...Scare. This meant a device of at least 100 kilotons (five times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), exploded neither underground nor in outer space, but probably mounted on a testing tower or dropped from a plane. It may have been a new, compact warhead for an ICBM missile like...
Fight Against Fat. In the defense field, AMF is the builder of the launching silos for the Titan and Atlas ICBMs, has also developed the rail-car launching system for the solid-fueled Minuteman ICBM...