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...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
From New York to California, in a total of 18 states, the U.S. is hard at work on the biggest, most complex and crucial military construction program in its peacetime history: the installation of attackproof, underground launching sites for the nation's Atlas, Titan and Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles. By the time this system is completed in 1963 it will have cost $7 billion, and scores of nuclear-armed missiles will be poised to strike, with the flick of a switch, at the enemy heartland...
...massive impregnability of the installations themselves. In all, some 20,000 workmen are digging out about 37.5 million cu. yds. of earth, replacing it with 1,600,000 tons of steel, 2,700,000 tons of concrete, and hundreds of miles of electrical ganglia. In Montana alone, 150 Minuteman silos will be dispersed over a 20,000-sq.-mi area, nearly twice the size of Maryland. They have been designed to withstand any nuclear blast short of a direct hit on their steel and concrete doors. From generators to toilets, everything that goes into an underground complex is shockproof...
...squadron Atlas program (with a total of 135 missiles), allow for twelve squadrons of Titans (with a total of 108 missiles). But the future of strategic deterrence clearly belongs to two solid-fuel missiles: the Navy's submarine-carried Polaris, and the Air Force's Minuteman, which can be fired from concrete "silos" buried in the ground, eventually will also be carried on special trains roaming at random through the U.S. and perhaps non-Communist Europe. Kennedy's bill will spend $1.8 billion to double the yearly production of Polaris subs from five...
Fight Against Fat. In the defense field, AMF is the builder of the launching silos for the Titan and Atlas ICBMs, has also developed the rail-car launching system for the solid-fueled Minuteman ICBM...