Word: nikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reston the Army passed the word that it had presented to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff a plan to produce an operational anti-missile missile* by 1961. Cost: between $6 billion and $7 billion. Name of the proposed missile system : the Army's Nike-Zeus...
Army: Russian progress in intercontinental missiles will gradually make obsolete the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. To defend U.S. cities in the foreseeable future, major allocations must be committed now for an effective ICBM counterweapon. The current Army Nike system-both physically and technically -can be used for the more complex Nike-Zeus anti-missile system...
...program would seriously compete with the evolving knockout strike force. Moreover, to stop an ICBM effectively-once its course is determined-an anti-ICBM must be launched into the trajectory from the target vicinity, and ICBM targets in the U.S. will be strike-force bases, not cities; therefore, even Nike sites are already wasted...
...raising of sights against missiles. Columbia University's Electronics Research Laboratories and the Air Force have developed a 3,000-mile, anti-missile radar-detection system, but huge appropriations and long months of testing are needed before it can be superimposed on NORAD's present defenses. Nike-Zeus and Wizard anti-missile missile systems, and an Air Force Special Weapons Center's proposal to use nuclear explosions as defense weapons against ICBMs in outer space, are similarly far from test stage. "The new system, the one we must have," says General Partridge, "will embrace the basic principles...
...battle commanders watch the picture, they can direct interception by remote control, automatically ordering "scrambles" by interceptor planes at nearby bases, or fire from antiaircraft and Nike guided-missile batteries in the area. In either case, the interceptors or missiles will be steered to the targets by directions from SAGE. As the battle moves, information will be automatically transferred to computers and picture tubes in the adjacent Air Division area...