Word: interceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction speed of such a missile must be almost instantaneous to blast off the ground, intercept and, through a precisely timed nuclear blast, destroy enemy missiles coming in at 17,000 miles an hour. "Traffic handling" refers to a system that prevents a flock of U.S. anti-missile missiles from blowing up each other as they climb to find enemy weapons. "Decoy discrimination" is a system that keeps the ABM from exploding harmlessly on contact with phony missiles and other chaff shot along with an attack. "Blackout effects" are caused by nuclear explosions of ABMs attacking an enemy bombardment, disrupt...
...Target. Shielded from the sun's glare by a special awning at the White Sands Missile Range, he saw an Army Honest John missile land directly on target in a burst of phosphorescence 71/2 miles away and a Nike Hercules intercept a sister missile overhead. Then off to the Navy's show-sub hunters firing rocket-launched torpedoes and Phantom fighters screaming above the carrier Kitty Hawk at the speed of sound to fire their Sparrow III missiles with deadly accuracy...
...under Anderson's direction, U.S. warships prepared to intercept them...
...that "could lead to certain incidents which would involve the use of the armed forces." In other words, the U.S. could blunder into military action by accident. Furthermore, "if any elements of armed forces embarked from Cuba for any neighboring countries," U.S. military force would be used to "intercept" the invaders. But as long as Castro refrains from intervening outside Cuba, Rusk seemed to say, the U.S. will refrain from intervening inside Cuba. And so, the Soviet buildup will continue apace...
...TIME erred. The Atlas device was a "miss distance indicator" to enable ground stations to tell how close the Nike-Zeus came to the target during the intercept...