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Last month, at the meeting of the NATO Council of Ministers, the U.S. cautiously suggested that they "study the possibility of" organizing a middle-range ballistic missile force. The proposal, which is a clever one, would station five Polaris submarines holding 18 missiles each in the alliance area if the...
* The seven: B-52, Titan, Atlas, Minuteman, Polaris, Skybolt (an air-launched ballistic missile), and the A³D, an H-bomb carrier plane.
Charles Stark Draper, 59, head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of its Instrumentation Lab, was once trying to spell out the meaning of dyne centimeter, a tiny unit of torque (twisting force). "A dyne centimeter," said Draper, a sociable chap, "is just about the amount of...
Probably none of Russia's subs can yet match the U.S. Polaris missile subs' ability to fire from a submerged position, and the missiles they carry are presumed to be only short-range (300 miles) land-type types installed on regular subs whose conning towers were enlarged to...
Navy. Mainly volunteer, the navy has already reached planned strength of 25,000 and amassed 185 small patrol ships to help keep the Russian fleet boxed up in the Baltic. Strauss has held off building the destroyers that were supposed to lead his navy, and now has talked the German...