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Everywhere the signs multiply that U.S. missilery is becoming a national effort. The work force of the missile family has increased recently to several hundred thousand; the work force of the ICBM alone has shot up from 7,000 to 70,000 within the past year. The armed forces will spend $6 billion on missiles next year-about 20% more than last year-and they are already phasing some missiles into the line in place of conventional equipment. In 1954 about 10% of Air Force procurement funds went for missiles; by 1960 the figure will...
Tomorrow's Men. As the man who leads the U.S. race to beat the Russians to a workable ICBM, and who sparks the U.S. surge toward space, General Schriever has what has been called "the most important job in the country." But the measure of the coming missile age is that today's dedicated, visionary missilemen are no longer considered unique or eccentric or extreme...
Schriever lost that battle, and some others. Of an early ICBM project, he said: "It had a questionable military value based on the then state of the art, so we sort of put it on the back burner." But interest in missiles was picking up, and one of the reasons was Schriever's visionary enthusiasm. Everywhere he debated and discoursed upon the values and virtues of missiles, missiles, missiles with such fervor that, according to one friendly scientist, "they thought Ben was insane...
...charge of development planning for Air Force headquarters, was one of the R and D officers who felt-and he proclaimed what he felt insistently-that a full survey of future nuclear warhead design ought to be made so as to shrink the cumbersome new hydrogen bomb into an ICBM. The H-bomb had a higher range of destruction than the Abomb, the argument went, and the need for pinpoint accuracy was therefore reduced...
...Early in 1954 a Strategic Missiles Evaluation Committee headed by the late great Mathematician John von Neumann developed and extended these breakthroughs. Von Neumann and his associates came out with a feasible technique for designing a lightweight hydrogen device which would indeed fit into the nose cone of an ICBM...