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...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...
Above all, it would delay the correction of the missile gap, because it would all but stop the U.S. development of nuclear warheads light enough to tip its second generation of solid-fuel missiles such as the Minuteman, Polaris and Nike-Zeus. (The Minuteman's warhead, for example, has never been tested...
...Honest John over White Sands, N. Mex. last month. In the first known kill of a ballistic missile, the two birds collided 1½ miles up at a combined speed of 2,000 m.p.h. Though a far cry from the Army's goal of perfecting a nuclear-tipped Nike-Zeus missile system capable of intercepting 16,000 m.p.h. ICBMs at 100-mile altitudes, the Hawk tests dispelled doubt that "a bullet could hit a bullet," gave new ammunition to the Army in its campaign to pry loose $137 million in Nike-Zeus funding now being withheld by the Budget...
...table. The U.S. still has a probable lead in nuclear weapons technology, but the nation's nuclear arsenal can stand plenty of improvement, particularly in the area of cleaner bombs and small tactical weapons. Important programs are needed in the field of miniaturization to develop warheads for the Nike-Zeus antimissile, for the Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's Minuteman ICBMs-all of which means nuclear testing...
...Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and President Eisenhower), and he accepts the decisions and respects the men who made them. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the Army Chief of Staff, said he did not plan to contest a recent Budget Bureau decision to withhold $137 million in Army funds for the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile...