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...Russian claim seemed to carry little imminent menace anyway after Secretary Wilson, at his last-week press conference, pointed out in passing just what it was the Russians said: not that they had a supply of inter-continental ballistic missiles, but that they had proved the possibility of an ICBM. Could the U.S., a newsman asked, have made the same claim a year...
...Engine Charlie seemed to be saying, would go on working toward an operational ICBM (a test of the Air Force's intercontinental Atlas is scheduled for this week at Cape Canaveral), and leave the intercontinental chest-thumping to the Russians...
While developing an arsenal of ballistic missiles for retaliatory or offensive power, the U.S. is also working on defense against Russian ICBMs. Until recently, scientists and military men generally agreed that a nuclear-armed ICBM, hurtling toward its target at 15,000 m.p.h., would be an "ultimate weapon," against which a nation could do nothing to save its cities from destruction. Last week General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff, announced that the Air Force has developed a new radar system that could detect an oncoming ICBM as much as 3,000 miles away. Based on the ORDIR...
...missile capable of intercepting an ICBM, but both the Army and the Air Force are working on "aunties" (Pentagon slang for antimissile missiles). An auntie would have to perform with fantastically superfine precision-unattainable, some scientists fear-in order to find a remote target moving at 15,000 m.p.h., but if it does prove to be feasible, auntie plus ORDIR would take the ultimateness out of the ultimate weapon...
...Navaho and the less complex Snark which superseded it, covered the first successful firing of the Air Force's Thor (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end the newsmen were standing by for the biggest bird of all, the second attempt to launch the 5,000-mile ICBM Atlas...