Word: polarisation
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In U.S. strategic planning, the importance of strategic bases overseas has waned in the last couple of years, and will continue to diminish in the years ahead. Polaris missile submarines have given the U.S. a mighty strategic wallop that is independent of fixed bases overseas. The U.S.'s growing...
Around the world, U.S. forces braced for combat. Under Admiral Anderson's orders, the Navy's Polaris submarines prowled the seas on courses known only to a handful of ranking officials. The Air Force went on a full-scale alert, put a fleet of B-52 bombers into...
What caused the U.S. turnabout? Well, went the Washington line, it is not really a turnabout. President Eisenhower first promised the sub to the French four years ago (the offer ran into congressional opposition). Furthermore, the sale price of $63 million will help in a small way to stem the...
To Navy weaponeers used to thinking in terms of quick-firing 5-in. guns or huge Polaris missiles, the assignment at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington was far out of line. Their task: to make a gun that could be fired point-blank inside the human head-not to...
The U.S. failed last week in its second attempt to explode a nuclear test at high altitude over Johnston Island in the Pacific. Official reason for the flop: "a malfunction in the system." Since nuclear devices almost always explode as planned, the malfunction was probably in the Thor rocket on...