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The planning group was rushing to meet a deadline this week set by Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, who created the board last August as a solution to a nagging dispute between the Air Force and the Navy over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The...
Shortly after the first Russian Sputnik soared into orbit in October 1957, Gates picked up the enthusiasm of the Navy's Polaris missile boosters, fought the civilian battles for a speedup in the Polaris program through the Defense Department and the White House. As a result, the first battle...
So high is the morale of Polaris submariners that most of them have withstood not only the temptations of private industry (almost every Polarisman has been offered civilian work at higher-than-service pay) but also the strains on family life. After each 60-day patrol, crews will be flown...
Even when underwater. Polaris submarines keep constant contact with the Navy's new. long-wave (very low frequency) transmitting stations. But since the ships are on their own, the Navy has an elaborate, secret "Fail-Safe'' countdown system that would prevent any captain, or any other officer...
If the Navy has its way, 45 Polaris subs will eventually be available for ocean patrol by 1965, with 30 on station at a time. This means constant coverage of 480 Soviet targets-from cities to airfields. In those 30 subs will be some 3,000 of the most highly...