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...will consist of five or six "perimeter acquisition radar sites" (PARS) along the northern U.S. border to identify and track incoming ICBMs. The radar sites will send information back to missile-site radar (MSR) equipment at 14 or so areas where long-range Spartan missiles will be poised to intercept enemy vehicles as much as 400 miles from their targets. Each Spartan battery will protect an elliptical area of the nation-in Pentagonese, a "footprint." Present plans call for batteries in each of the overlapping footprints, others in Alaska and Hawaii...
...over-the-horizon" radar, now being perfected, to spot missiles as they leave launch pads in China or Russia, 30 minutes' flight time from the U.S. Once the onrushing rockets are detected, two types of antimissiles will be deployed. One is the long-range Spartan, designed to intercept enemy missiles 400 miles above the earth; the other is the short-range Sprint, whose job is to cope with any missiles that escape Spartan's nuclear net at levels under...
Assuming that such a disaster was nearly upon them, the M.I.T. students organized themselves into seven specialized groups to study the trajectories necessary to intercept Icarus, the space hardware and communications equipment that was available or could be quickly produced, and the effects of nuclear explosions. They consulted with leading physicists, used M.I.T. computers, and determined whether Cape Kennedy's launch-pad capacity could be expanded in time. The groups then coordinated their findings and, using systems engineering, devised a master plan to meet the threat of Icarus...
Just what effect, if any, the President's Right of Privacy Bill would have on the Justice Department's fight against crime is not at all clear. The Federal Communications Act, in effect since 1934, already makes it a crime for "any person" to intercept and divulge a telephone conversation. Congress has repeatedly refused to make exceptions--even for national security cases...
...print information which might be used as propaganda in the cold war, or which might prove diplomatically embarrassing to our government. The question is best presented through example; first, should reporters have exposed the Bay of Pigs adventure; second should reporters have published Kennedy's plan to intercept Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba. Presumably in the first instance they might have saved the U.S. from one of its most embarrassing international incidents, while in the second case, they did well to keep silent. But this is all hindsight. We feel that reporters should have exposed the Bay of Pigs...