Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶ Prepare for six more Polaris-firing subs, for a total force of 21 in 1965, by starting to build such long-lead parts as reactors (construction time: 42 months).
The warheads designed for the Polaris and Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, which the U.S. is depending upon to close the missile gap in the mid-1960s, pack a nuclear punch of about half a megaton, compared with an estimated eight megatons carried by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, and about three...
The seagoing missile laboratory, fitted with exact duplicates of launching tubes aboard the Navy's two Polaris submarines, listed 2^ degrees to starboard. Deep below the ship's afterdeck, a tube holding a Polaris missile was tilted another seven degrees to guarantee that the missile would fire away...
Except that Observation Island lay on the sea's surface, this was the closest test yet to an underwater launching of Polaris on its urgent march toward operational deployment by late 1960. Premature burnout of the second stage cut 100 miles from the missile's programed flight, but...
The fast-paced Polaris project, a full three years ahead of original schedule, was pushed even harder as the Navy shifted $52 million from other shipbuilding and reserve funds to speed seven nuclear subs now under construction, advanced operational dates by ten weeks. The Navy's eventual fleet of...