Word: polarises
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If the Soviets were unconcerned about U.S. space progress, they might well have been jolted on another front last week when the Polaris missile lifted out of the Pacific on its first successful launching from underwater.
The big (28 ft.) yellow-and-black bird was fired from a launching tube some 200 ft. below the surface off Southern California's San Clemente Island. At the press of a button in an island blockhouse, a blast of compressed air pushed the Polaris to the surface. As...
Said the Navy of the 18-second test: "Successful in every respect." Next big step: a full-range, two-stage, 1,200-mile firing from the nuclear submarine George Washington in August-and then on to operational duty at sea, where the well-concealed, virtually invulnerable Polaris will add a...
¶ Salvaged an inertial guidance system that North American had been working on since 1950 for a fighter plane (the system has yet to go into a fighter, but its kissing-cousin now guides Polaris subs).
The new emphasis is more and more on deterrence. Military planners figure that the best way to prevent war is to perfect and produce the kind of retaliatory weapons that could survive any attack and then go on to devastate the aggressor. That means that the U.S. will rely more...