Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...testing gear. The milestone shot cheered Titan's hard-pressed assembler, Martin Co. (TIME, Jan. 4), and Pentagon missilemen, who have bet heavily ($850 million in the fiscal 1961 budget alone) that highly touted Titan will go on the line next year as a more powerful and flexible ICBM than the 14-stage (single engine plus boosters) Atlas...
...Assistant Secretary of War for Air joined, after a moderate protest, in a Truman Administration decision July 8, 1947 not to go ahead developing the Atlas ICBM project...
...Administration argues that an ICBM gap of 2 to 1 in 1963, or even 3 to 1, will not mean a "deterrent gap." In 1963, explains Defense Secretary Thomas Gates, the U.S. will not be relying solely or even mainly on ICBMs for its main deterrent power. The big punch will still be the H-bombs in the bays of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers. Backing up SAC's bombers will be a growing force of missiles, but SAC alone will provide an abundance of what the Pentagon calls "overkill." The H-bombs carried...
...seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these strange goings-on mark the development of the Minuteman, the solid-fuel missile that its proponents confidently expect will ultimately replace the liquid-fuel Atlas as the U.S.'s standard ICBM...
Cruising routinely through the chill North Pacific last fall, U.S. Navy ships and aircraft reported unusual Russian missile activity. The Navy tracked a couple of Russian intercontinental missile shots into northern waters, considered deploying a U.S. submarine to snag a made-in-Moscow ICBM nose cone before Russian pick-up ships could get to it. During the past fortnight the Navy watched with increasing interest as radar-studded Russian trawlers headed thousands of miles southward into the Central Pacific. Last week the Navy and the U.S. got the news through Moscow's Tass Agency of what the Red fleet...