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The Navy is gradually leaking information about missiles to be launched under water. In Missiles and Rockets, an article by Erik Bergaust gives intriguing details about the Polaris, an IRBM (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile) that the Navy is developing with the help of the Army's famous missile center...
According to Bergaust, the Polaris will be a rather fat missile 40 ft.-50 ft. long and about 8 ft. in diameter. Its range will be more than 800 miles, and it will carry a nuclear warhead. Instead of liquid fuels, which the Navy considers too dangerous and undependable to...
The submarines to launch such missiles will have to be specially built and unusually big. The Navy has not revealed how the missiles will be stowed on board. They may be carried in firing position in vertical cells, or, if this is too awkward, they may be carried lying down...
Polaris would not hurry for Dr. Moore; so the confirmation of his theory had to wait. Dr. Roemer, by carefully comparing a long series of spectrograms, proved that Polaris is circling once in 30½ years around a dim and probably close companion whose faint light is wholly blotted out...
In 1929 Dr. J. H. Moore of Lick Observatory noticed that the spectrum of Polaris, which is a brilliant supergiant, showed irregularities suggesting that it is revolving around still another star. Under such conditions the light of the circling star changes slightly, according to whether it is moving toward or...