Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, it would delay the correction of the missile gap, because it would all but stop the U.S. development of nuclear warheads light enough to tip its second generation of solid-fuel missiles such as the Minuteman, Polaris and Nike-Zeus. (The Minuteman's warhead, for example, has...
Taking risks paid dividends. Sargo's disciplined crew proved, among other things, that 1) the subs' guidance systems can be rated at pinpoint accuracy, 2) U.S. subs can travel submerged through the ice-locked Bering Straits in midwinter, 3) they can reach the top of the world from...
Watkinson is also moving away from a 1958 British decision that would have hitched Britain's long-range nuclear-weapons planning exclusively to the fixed-site Blue Streak missile. Instead, the British are considering greater reliance on missiles that can be launched from submarines or planes-specifically the U.S...
The Lead & the Need. In Washington last week there was growing concern that the Geneva talks would drag on and on to no conclusion. During the past 15 months, the U.S. has halted all nuclear tests. Yet the Communists may well be secretly testing, while the U.S. sits patiently at...
Imperturbably at midweek the President flew to Florida for a tour of the Cape Canaveral missile-test center. For 3¼ hours he was led through a forest of gantries for the liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan, the solid-fueled Polaris and Pershing. He praised the base's "minimum...