Word: irbms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such businesslike activity shared Canaveral spotlights with successful tests of the solid-fuel, second-generation Titan ICBM and the air-launched (from a B-47) Bold Orion experimental IRBM (TIME...
European missile bases, "subject to attack by large numbers of accurate Russian IRBM's," Ellsberg said, would disappear in the unexpected aggression...
Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government, said, "Macmillan may have felt that Khrushchev's main motive in the Berlin crisis is to force the West to agree to keep IRBM's out of West Germany." Hopper claimed that the West could afford to restrict missiles with atomic warheads to Britain or France...
...Braun reports that we are three years behind the Russians in developing our missiles, and intelligence estimates themselves show that the United States is soon going to fall well behind the U.S.S.R. in its missile arsenal. By 1963, it is estimated, against the Soviets' 1500 ICBM's and 1000 IRBM's, we will have 300 and 150 respectively...
...Douglas Aircraft Co., $513.4 million, including Navy jet fighters and bombers, Air Force light bombers, Nike antiaircraft missiles and Thor IRBM...