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Speaking of absurdities, McNamara's statement was a classic. The Defense Department that he heads will have spent nearly $900 million on the Nike-Zeus system development without getting a single model installed and ready to fire. Not until early next year will the Army undertake its first anti-missile shots at its Kwajalein launching site (see SCIENCE); final trials are not scheduled until late 1962. Until then, no one will know whether Zeus is as perfect as McNamara wants the Russians to think it is-or as deficient as they must suspect...
...North Carolina, many a leatherneck's family has been living for months in cramped trailer quarters. For exercise they can stroll out to stare wistfully at 123 Marine houses that for nine months have needed only a day's work to make them ready for occupancy. At Nike villages in Texas, families have been prevented from joining their missilemen for nine more months for lack of housing. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the winter winds whip through the half shells of some $11.3 million in unfinished, abandoned housing projects-preventing the transfer...
...Army, a dozen-odd interested manufacturers, and certain members of Congress are beating the drums for immediate "limited" production of the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile (now scraping along on a $302 million research and development allowance). Such big guns as Douglas Aircraft's Donald Douglas Jr. have been volleying around Washington, and recent issues of Army and Missiles and Rockets magazines are almost entirely given over to articles, editorials and ads praising Nike-Zeus and urging its production ("We could sleep better"). The Kennedy Administration shows no signs of being hurried into a decision before the basic Nike...
...stop attacking planes; no U.S. bombing raid was ever beaten back, and the worst loss rate suffered by the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain was 8% per mission. In the age of missilery and megatons, the problem is even more complex-and costly. To create the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile system would cost the U.S. an estimated $14 billion-more than the entire Atlas program-and then no one could dream that it would knock out every nuclear-nosed missile. Last week the Army's chief of staff, General Lyman Lemnitzer, sadly surrendered hope of prying...
...133B transport program, which involved well under 100 planes, is due to phase out in 1961, and the A3D attack-plane program is due to run out next January, although orders for the A4D attack plane will run for several years. ¶ The anti-missile Nike Zeus has an uncertain future, but the antiaircraft Nike Hercules is still an important part of Douglas business...