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With Bewildering Speed. For Roger Blough, the news was bad, bad, very bad. Inland's decision just about wrecked any hopes he had of winning the fight. But even with the outcome all but decided, the Administration kept bludgeoning away. Defense Secretary McNamara announced that he had directed his...
Money in the Payload. Much of the credit for the fact that Lockheed has become the nation's No. 3 defense contractor (behind General Dynamics and North American Aviation) belongs to the late Bob Gross. In 1946-long before Sputnik -he swung Lockheed into the missile-and-space work...
¶ By 1967, when the Air Force would just be getting its RS-70s into operation, the U.S. will be protected by over 1,000 Atlas, Titan and Minuteman missiles, plus 650 Polaris missiles carried by submarines and more than 700 B-52s and B-58s. Without a single RS...
>"Proof-test" weapons already in the U.S. atomic arsenal-something the Pentagon is particularly anxious to do. The series will include the first full tests of the Minuteman and Polaris missile warheads, and operational tests for ASROC (antisubmarine rocket), an ingenious, nuclear-tipped weapon that seeks out its target under...
>Conduct "effects tests" to discover how well the Minuteman can ride out a nuclear attack in its "hardened," underground silo. Other tests will seek to determine how well the hulls of submarines-including the subs that carry the Polaris missile-will stand up to nuclear attack. Nuclear weapons will be...