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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...
...Pentagon itself was impressed by some sobering reports on the second Soviet missile firing in mid-Pacific. Last week's long-range shot into an area 1,000 miles southwest of Honolulu was seen and monitored by a U.S. Navy plane crew, proved that the Russian ICBM is indeed very sophisticated. As the missile bore in at a re-entry angle of 18° (which indicated that the Soviets fired at maximum range), a capsulelike object was detached from the nose cone and dipped into the ocean. Both hit near the middle of a triangle of three Soviet ships...
...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...