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Each Polaris sub can carry 16 missiles. The A1s and A2s are operational (·), the A3s not yet.
The Strategic Air Command last week took operational control of two new nine-bird squadrons of Titan II missiles at the Little Rock, Ark., Air Force Base. These are the last liquid-fueled intercontinental missiles scheduled for the U.S. arsenal. With the U.S. now well into the phase of second...
Force or Farce. Paris is equally skeptical of Washington's proposed multilateral force ("multilateral farce," the French call it). So are most of the other allies. But at least a few are beginning to believe that the idea-surface ships armed with Polaris weapons and manned by mixed crews...
Spurred on by the Kennedy assassination-both Nenni and Moro feared that President Johnson might not be as sympathetic to the "opening to the left" -the negotiators then hammered out an 8,000-word program of cooperation that was just vague enough so that either party, or any faction, could...
Both the A-1 (the original Polaris) and the A-2 are shoved to the sea's surface by compressed air-a process that requires heavy tanks and complicated valving. The A-3 starts on its flight when a small rocket motor is ignited and shoots hot gas into...