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¶In the captain's cabin of the U.S.S. Observation Island off Cape Canaveral one afternoon, when an exultant Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr. congratulated his skippers on the first successful firing of a Polaris missile from a submerged submarine, only one newsman was present. He was Miami Bureau...
Amid deepest secrecy, U.S. and Allied planes and ships have long prowled the air and sea approaches to the Soviet fortress. Such so-called "ferret" fights probe the Russian radar fences in the Pacific, in the Middle East and in the Arctic north. The Russians, for their part, send a...
National Defense. Provide for a "second-strike nuclear retaliatory power capable of surviving surprise attack" and "a capacity for limited warfare that can deter or check local aggression." Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and...
So successful is Acoustica's liquid-level sensor that it is now being used on nuclear submarines to detect sea water in the launching tubes of Polaris missiles and in the ground-fueling system for some liquid-fueled missiles. Rod also envisions nonmilitary use of his device, has sold...
Two factors, said Dale, are relevant to the cold war almost everywhere it is waged-and the U.S. has the advantage in both areas. "One," Dale wrote, "is that up to now there has not been any military disparity [between Russia and the U.S.]. Of course, the pessimistic school concedes...