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...Ranging from the deserts of Nevada to the plains of Wyoming and the mountain country of Montana, they shook down the train that in three years will be operating over 100,000 miles of U.S. rails with the Air Force's second-generation, solid-fuel, 6,300-mile Minuteman missiles and launchers. Train-borne and mobile, Minuteman will be virtually invulnerable to enemy attack...
...Senate spent half the fiscal 1961 federal budget by appropriating $40.5 billion for defense - $1 billion more than the original Administration request and the total in the House-passed bill. In its mood of cold war militancy, it approved (85-0) multimillion-dollar boosts for the Atlas, Minuteman and Polaris missiles, pushed the Samos, Midas and Discoverer satellites, pumped new life into the B70 bomber and Bomarc antiaircraft-missile program, bolstered the Army's airlift capability, and earmarked $293 million for a conventionally powered supercarrier. Added by floor amendment were $90 million (for a $422 million total) to modernize...
Point of Light. Much work remains to be done. Nose cones can be made still lighter, thus adding to the missile's payload. This is particularly important to the solid-fuel, second-generation Minuteman, a fine but small missile with definite payload limitations. Already in the works are plans to make re-entry bodies maneuver so that their courses will be unpredictable and hard to intercept. To do this, the re-entering bodies must have controls and some sort of wings to give them lift, or to make them plunge steeply, or to let them dodge from side...
...makes it tough for an enemy to choose targets for attack, it forces him to maintain a defense against a number of different weapons systems. "This mixed-force capability is being planned or provided through the employment of the large ICBM installations hardened against nuclear attack, the smaller mobile Minuteman ICBM, the elusive Polaris fleet ballistic missile system, and the continuing capability of our strategic bomber force, including the limited development of an advanced version in the B70 bomber...
...survive any attack and then go on to devastate the aggressor. That means that the U.S. will rely more and more on early warning systems, heavy and accurate firepower such as Strategic Air Command bombers and Atlases have today, and the maximum amount of invulnerability-such as the mobile Minuteman and the underwater Polaris will boast tomorrow...