Word: nike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet tests indicated substantial advances in the development of entire atomic weapons systems-particularly including progress in the anti-missile missile area, in which the U.S. is lagging and cannot pick up real impetus until it resumes its own atmospheric testing. The U.S. anti-missile missile, Nike-Zeus, will not even be ready for check-out testing until...
...students, it is our job to think," proceeded Meyer, criticizing the apathy of the American people. He painted a grim picture of the present situation: nuclear warheads being installed on Nike missles, atomic submarines and bombers in constant readiness, shelters being built and armed with machine guns...
...parlayed its World War II radar-directed antiaircraft gun control system into prime contracts for the Nike series (Ajax, Hercules, Zeus) of antiaircraft and antimissile rockets. Defense business last year was 27% of sales of A. T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary...
...Early Warning System, which will give 15 minutes' warning of an attack. To speed detection by priceless minutes, the program also steps up work on Midas, a satellite-borne, spy-in-the-sky warning system. To counter an enemy's manned bombers, the bill will improve the Nike-Hercules and Bomarc ground-to-air missiles, beef up the F-101, F-102 and F106 interceptors...
...even if the first tests do not succeed, they may well be needed to point the way to more advanced systems of missile defense. The byproducts of the Nike Zeus program may be valuable too. One example: the solid-propellant boosters that toss the big rockets into action can already generate 450,000 lbs. of thrust, beating by a wide margin the 389,000-lb.-thrust Atlases, on which the U.S. now depends for its push into space...