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Steered by Injections. U.A.C.'s 120-in. engine is a monster: 75 ft. tall, it weighs 250 tons, and each of its five cylindrical segments contains more rubbery propellant* than an entire Air Force Minuteman. While it burns for nearly two minutes, it gives 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, three times as much as that of an Atlas. It is steered by injections of liquid nitrogen tetroxide into the white hot gas stream through valves in the sides of the engine's nozzle...
...substituting commercially available hydraulic "mules" for the specially designed electronic apparatus used to shut the doors of Minuteman missile silos, he cut the cost per unit from...
...McNamara has immensely speeded up the building and placement of nuclear-armed missiles in hardened sites and elusive submarines, where they can survive an enemy attack and hit back. The first 30 fast-firing, solid-fueled Minuteman missiles are now operational, a year ahead of schedule, in protected underground silos in Montana. By 1966 some 950 will be ready to fire. Nine Polaris submarines, each carrying 16 missiles that can be fired from beneath the sea and reach the Soviet heartland, now patrol the North Atlantic. By 1966 there will be at least 30 Polaris subs. The U.S., with...
...that country the potential to challenge the primacy of U.S. military power." The Russians are now pursuing that aim, he reported, mainly by making their nuclear striking forces harder for the U.S. to knock out. They are developing missiles that can be launched from underground silos (like the U.S. Minuteman) and missile-launching submarines (like the U.S. Polaris). Thus the U.S.S.R. is also developing a second strike force...
...four-place Cessna 180 descended toward a landing at Wyoming's Minuteman Missile Site B6. Down and down it went, faster and faster. Too fast. One of the passengers leaned toward veteran Pilot Edgar Van Keuren. The pilot's eyes were open-but sightless. He was dead of a stroke...