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Might. In New London, Conn., before the graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy, he was the tough-talking Commander in Chief. The U.S., he said, possesses a military power against which "the combined destructive power of every battle ever fought by man is like a firecracker thrown against the...
So firm is their faith in the advantages of solids, four large rocket companies are putting millions of their own, dollars into development-a rare gamble in the Government-nurtured aerospace industry. In addition to Lockheed, Thiokol Chemical Corp., maker of the Minuteman booster, has put $12 million into a...
Flock of Birds. In the span of the ensuing decade of strategic missilery, the U.S. has accomplished one of the greatest scientific, engineering and construction feats in history. It has produced and deployed a versatile flock of big birds: the pioneering Atlas, the more powerful two-stage Titan, the stopgap...
The Navy had such heroes as Vice Admirals William Raborn Jr. and Hyman Rickover in development of the Polaris system. The Army's German-born Wernher von Braun pushed Jupiter before turning to space research. All of the other projects were Air Force-and no one in blue has...
Even as the U.S. began to deploy Atlas, it pushed on to develop Titan, which could carry a heavier warhead. Yet U.S. intelligence painted a frightening picture of Soviet missile capability. Defense Department experts predicted that the U.S.S.R. could have some 400 long-range missiles by mid-1963, while the...