Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment there is very little cooperation between NASA and the Department of Defense. The Pentagon has conspicuously avoided the exploration of offensive military potential in space, despite Congressional demands for such developments. According to Dr. Robert Hall, assistant to the Director of Space Engineering in the Pentagon U.S. military objectivesin space remain centirely "defensive." They include, for instance, the perfectionof communications and "spy" satellites as part of American's extensive warning system. Hall compared the warning satellites to a policeman patrolling his beat. "Neither is for strictly agressive purposes, but both are quite necessary...
Very little of the $1.7 billion Defense appropiation for space exploration is spent on research on space development; most is used for the mere construction of ground facilities like launching pads. Although the Pentagon is interested in several aspects of the moon program, it has left management of the project completely in NASA's hands. It has watched the development of the Gemini project closely, however, because it sees some future military uses of rendezvous-in-space techniques. The Pentagon has also followed the progress of large boosters like the Titan II and the Saturn V-although...
There are some signs of closer collaboration between NASA and the Pentagon, however. The two agencies have recently negotiated an agressment to cooperate on the development of a manned space station to orbit the earth, since both see needs for the station and each wants to study its possibilities...
...regiments were rushed to Germany at the height of the Berlin crisis in 1961 in order to reinforce the six U.S. divisions committed to NATO. These temporary reinforcements would all have been brought back after the crisis eased-at a saving of nearly $200 million a year-if the Pentagon had been allowed its way. But to placate Bonn, the Kennedy Administration promised in September that it would not withdraw any troops "without consultation." The furor in Bonn last week forced President Kennedy to repeat, somewhat wearily, that the six NATO divisions plus the six additional regiments that...
After the outbreak of fighting, developments were rapid. The United States agreed to provide, on credit, whatever materials India requested: "Washington may be slow on broad policy decisions," Galbraith observed, "but the Pentagon, if necessary, can react very rapidly." He pointed out that India asked for aid on a Monday, and by the following Saturday, plane-loads of supplies had begun to arrive on a regular schedule...