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...With increased missile funds in sight, the Navy promised a step-up in the target date-now 1962-on its Polaris, a solid-fuel, 1,500-mile IRBM that can be fired from a submarine...
...proposal for IRBM missile bases in Europe was met with some reservations. Many European civilians felt a little nervous at learning for the first time that their countries were to be the bases for strategic retaliation. The Norwegians and Danes, who have long since made it clear that they want no strategic missile bases on their soil, remained uninterested. The Dutch and Belgians still felt NATO ought to concentrate more heavily on building up conventional forces for the defense of The Netherlands and Belgium. The West Germans, whose enthusiasm for missile sites within their frontiers is restrained, grumbled that they...
However, it could not be learned here if any Soviet IRBM's have shown up as yet in East Germany. The growing strategic importance of East Germany makes the chances of Moscow's consenting to German reunification through free elections more remote than ever...
...Done? Yes, with qualification. Thor, the Air Force IRBM, is in its first production stages. The first operational unit (about 16, by present tables) could be deployed in Europe by the middle of next year. Within two years, a monthly output of 100 Thors is considered feasible at a cost of less than $1,000,000 per bird. The Army Jupiter is an equivalent IRBM weapon-and also a good one. But no production line now exists for the Jupiter; those fired so far were "hand-tooled." i.e., individually assembled. Question still to be resolved: whether to concentrate exclusively...
Should It Be Done? Yes, without qualification. NATO's Lauris Norstad was perhaps first and foremost in grasping the logic of launching IRBMs from European bases. His proposition, pushed hard during a trip to Washington last week: the IRBMs would be under the control of the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (currently, the U.S.'s Norstad). Since only SACEUR could order the weapons into war, no individual nation, bent on some strictly nationalistic adventure, could toss them off into the wild blue yonder. NATO's IRBM launchers would be manned by European troops-but they would...