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...statement was a classic. The Defense Department that he heads will have spent nearly $900 million on the Nike-Zeus system development without getting a single model installed and ready to fire. Not until early next year will the Army undertake its first anti-missile shots at its Kwajalein launching site (see SCIENCE); final trials are not scheduled until late 1962. Until then, no one will know whether Zeus is as perfect as McNamara wants the Russians to think it is-or as deficient as they must suspect...
Lonely little Kwajalein Island, a 600-acre islet in the central Pacific, has known more than its share of excitement. World War II bombing raids left it almost bare of vegetation. In 1954 it was the first refuge of 82 inhabitants of nearby Rongelap, who were evacuated, their hair falling out in patches, after an H-bomb test had sprinkled their home with radioactive residue. When the radioactivity on Rongelap died down, the refugees returned and Kwajalein quieted down. But last week it was busier than ever as a task force prepared to test the Nike Zeus, the U.S. Army...
...Prevent Frying. The army is spending $75 million on Kwajalein, and the island already looks like the set for a science-fiction movie. Close to the coral beach, a circular, steel-mesh fence, 65 ft. high and 680 ft. in diameter, surrounds a rotating, triangular radar antenna, 80 ft. on a side. This electronic monster is named ZAR (Zeus Acquisition Radar), and when it sends its pulses into space to probe for incoming missiles, the fence will act as a shield to keep the powerful radio waves from frying all Kwajalein. Crewmen operating ZAR will go to work through...
...issues of Army and Missiles and Rockets magazines are almost entirely given over to articles, editorials and ads praising Nike-Zeus and urging its production ("We could sleep better"). The Kennedy Administration shows no signs of being hurried into a decision before the basic Nike-Zeus tests scheduled for Kwajalein Atoll next year...
...obsolescent relics of the propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were atomized, MATS would be hard put to deliver as much as a can of Spam to Japan. The only long-legged, modern transport in Tunner's stable is the turboprop C-133 Cargomaster, of which MATS counts a mere 29, with another 20 on order...