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...produced, buried in the ground, and fired within 15 minutes of the instant that enemy rockets first flash onto the radar screens of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System in Alaska and Greenland. It is now convincingly clear that the Air Force has developed just such a missile: the Minuteman...
...airframe business, prospered by putting its chips on missiles and space, and lately has branched into such solid civilian products as cement. In time, most of the major planemakers went over to missiles and space. Today, General Dynamics has its Atlas, Boeing Airplane Co. its Dyna-Soar and Minuteman, Douglas its Skybolt, and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. its Mercury capsule. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., which is the prime contractor for the Discoverer, Midas and Samos satellites, gets more than half its sales from missilery and space. So does the company that has built more planes than any other in the past-giant...
American Machine & Foundry Co., more widely known for its automatically controlled bowling Pinspotters, is in aerospace with launch site mechanisms for Titan I, Atlas and Minuteman plus a projected moon wagon which will travel on wire brushes...
Lerner, who has just returned from seven years of studying problems of unity in Europe, said that only default on United States' undertaking in Berlin would be likely to prompt a major reevaluation in the immediate future. But as strategic weapons systems comparable to Minuteman and Polaris make nuclear deterrence cheaper, movement toward a defense organization will probably accelerate...
What Russian weapons need testing? Probably the most urgent Soviet need is for testing powerful but light nuclear warheads that can be carried by comparatively small missiles like the U.S. Polaris and Minuteman. The great boosters used for Russian space shots are so expensive that they cannot be produced in large numbers without straining the Soviet economy. If the Russians continue to make their tests in the atmosphere, U.S. nuclear physicists can come to fairly accurate conclusions about them by measuring the shock waves that they create, and by catching and analyzing their radioactive byproducts. The results of underground tests...