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...base missile (TIME, Oct. 13) would be ready for defense operation next year. The bird's now-certain role: temporary plug in the missile gap between the deterrent power of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers and the oncoming solid-fuel Navy Polaris and Air Force Minuteman...
...exceedingly wasteful to phase in too heavily the newer weapons that will soon be obsolete. The art of modern defense planning, combining security with fiscal responsibility, is to phase in and out at the right time, neither too late nor too soon. Looking ahead to the mid-1960s, when Minuteman and Polaris will account for most of the U.S.'s deterrent-retaliatory power, Administration planners are convinced that it would be wildly wasteful to build in the meantime a huge force of obsolescence-doomed Atlases and Titans to replace SAC bombers. So the Administration is partially leapfrogging the Atlas...
...missile for missile" during the next few years, the Administration has two urgent tasks cut out for it. One is to convince the world-Communists, neutralists, allies and the U.S.'s own citizens -that the missile gap will not mean a defense gap. The other is to push Minuteman and Polaris as fast as funds and priorities can push them. If there must be a missile gap, however efficiently it is filled by SAC's bombers, the less time it lasts the better...
...military construction outlays. Procurement outgo stays about the same, $14 billion, with no money for Air Force interceptors or phased-out missiles such as the Navy's Regulus II, more money for newer missiles. The Air Force's missile-of-the-future, the solid-fuel Minuteman, is scheduled for a 40% increase to $270 million. Within the defense budget, the shares of the three services remain about the same, with the Air Force getting $18.6 billion, the Navy $11.6 billion, the Army $9.3 billion...
Headache & Bonanza. Wade's training shots of Thor, Atlas and second-generation missiles (perhaps the solid-fuel Minuteman) will soar over the vast National Pacific Missile Range, be scored for hits and misses by naval units reporting to nearby Point Mugu Naval-Air Missile Test Center. Already experienced at its work, the twelve-year-old Navy center has been scoring its own Sparrow and Bullpup guided missiles over a short ocean range, safely sent ship-based Regulus missiles over the mountains 500 miles inland to impact at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Now enlarging to handle bigger missiles-perhaps...