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...support his proposals, Flanders charged that the American public was "fascinated with numbers," whereas "a dozen well-placed bombs would suffice" to cripple Russia. He called ICBM's "unnecessary," because of the effectiveness of intermediate missiles launched from West Europe. Opposing German rearmament, he said it "stopped dead" any possibility of German unity...
Since the future of our country lies in the capabilities of dynamic men like Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, I read with extreme interest your April 1 cover story. The Atlas ICBM will be successful for the simple reason that Ben Schriever and his associates possess a fighting will...
Then there are developing the Air Force's "cruise" missiles, the Northrop Snark and perhaps the North American Navaho, in effect advanced unmanned airplanes of 5,000 miles range which, unlike the ICBM, can be controlled by their mechanism on their infinitely slower way all the way to the target. The Air Force is also developing Rascal, a promising supersonic air-to-surface missile; Thor, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile; and Titan, a second design for an ICBM. The Navy has a costly but promising project to develop Polaris, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile which will carry...
Black Friday. The U.S.'s payoff bet is Ben Schriever's ICBM, and Schriever knows how to play for high stakes. One Friday a month, a day his staff calls Black Friday, he summons his key men into his project control room in WDD headquarters in Inglewood. This room is a massive vault whose walls, floors and ceilings are built of 6-in. concrete reinforced by steel; its treasures are guarded when the room is empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound...
This will be the real and immediate meaning of the fateful X-day that will occur at the Air Force Missile Test Center in Florida a few weeks hence when Ben Schriever's first Model-T ICBM is lifted vertically for its first test blastoff. And while this will be a great moment in military history, what will 1987 think of it? Or 1997? The missile stands just about where the airplane stood after World War I-when military planes had to compete for the taxpayer dollar with the cavalry horse. How primitive will tomorrow...