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...with close to 370,000 lbs. of thrust, the 80-ft. beast leaped from its Cape Canaveral pad, rocketed off the Florida coast into the starry night and arched serenely over the moon. The Cape's missile watchers held their breath as, in shucking its booster motors, the ICBM blazed like a meteor 200 miles from earth; then it faded and seemed to hang for a long time, suspended, like a star-colored point, just below Orion...
...Force stuck stubbornly to a schedule that was programed for maximum effort long before Sputnik. Atlas will need many more tests-and particularly refinement of its guidance system-before it is a real operational weapon. But if, as they claim, the Russians have already fired an ICBM (3,500 miles, according to U.S. intelligence guesses), the successful full-range Atlas flight makes it clear that Russia has no monopoly. It also makes clear that the U.S. missile program, already equipped with the first operational intermediate-range missiles, is coming and coming fast...
...Russians are not so advanced in missilery as the Sputniks would indicate. Nevertheless, the U.S. radar posts have "watched" 800-mile flights from the Krasny Yar missile range and from the island of Novaya Zemlya off the northern coast in the Arctic Sea; and the Russians have shot an ICBM thousands of miles. It may be that they have not yet developed a dependable nose cone or solved the re-entry problem (the U.S. Army's Jupiter nose cone was recovered intact, earlier this year, after a 1,600-mile shoot). Still...
Brobdingnagian Cartridge. Conceived in 1955 as a backstop to the Atlas ICBM, which is a surface or "soft-base" missile, the Titan program began with a one-year handicap, has since lost ground as the lion's share of money, engineers and steam poured into Atlas. But Titan shows signs of becoming a system with superior potential range, invincibility and kill...
...Cape Canaveral. Fla., the Air Force's first attempt to send an Atlas ICBM its full intercontinental range-more than 6,000 miles-ended in failure when the giant rocket exploded 60,000 ft. in the air. only So seconds after leaving the launching...