Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶ Proving that U.S. submarines can sail at any time of year to the top of the world, within easy Polaris range of Russia, the nuclear sub Sargo slipped hundreds of miles under the fierce Arctic ice pack to the North Pole. The fourth U.S. submarine voyage to the Pole...
c) Fire 16 nuclear-tipped, 1,200-mile-range Polaris missiles at 16 separate targets from below the surface within a few minutes.
¶ The Navy's solid-fuel Polaris missile, slated for submarine duty late this year, scored its fifth straight success in a prototype surface firing from Cape Canaveral, soared goo miles downrange into the Atlantic.
Generals White and Power make a persuasive case for the B-70, but it would be even more persuasive if a lot of defense experts did not argue just as plausibly that it would make more sense to narrow the missile gap by speeding up development of Minuteman. If defense...
Polaris & Minuteman. The decision to bet on the future of the Polaris and Minuteman systems, and to put up with a missile gap in the meantime as a calculated risk, entails a responsibility to push Polaris and Minuteman as fast as possible in order to shorten the duration of the...