Word: polarisation
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Viet Nam Aid. With little debate, the Senate and House also approved the Pentagon's request for $1.9 billion for two Trident submarines. The Navy wants ten Tridents to start replacing the smaller, slower Polaris-Poseidon submarines by 1978. Both houses voted to continue the B-1 bomber program...
Draper, a guidance and navigation lab that receives 85 per cent of its funds from the Department of Defense and helped develop the Polaris, Poseidon and Trident missiles, announced it was joining a Boston development firm in building a $30 million Technology Square complex that will keep about 2000 jobs...
New Weapons. To get the talks moving, the Administration wants "bargaining chips" in the form of new weapons and argues that they may prove even more necessary if the talks fail. Nixon's budget request includes $1.3 billion to continue accelerating the development of the Trident missile-firing submarine, which...
Throughout its rapid buildup during the past decade, that navy has remained basically a defensive force. Its chief military mission has been to deny the U.S. unrestricted freedom of the seas, especially in waters within Polaris-missile range of the Soviet Union, and to limit U.S. options for intervention in...
That fleet will certainly include a powerful armada of nuclear-powered, missile-carrying submarines. Currently the Russians' most potent undersea weapon is the Y-class sub, called Yankee in American navy parlance, which is comparable in size and speed to the U.S. Polaris. As Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird...