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What U.S. weapons have already been tested? At the start of the test moratorium in the fall of 1958, the U.S. had a family of well-tested bombs ranging in power from less than one kiloton (1,000 tons of TNT) up to 20 megatons (equivalent to 20 million tons...
The control center for the vast building project is at Inglewood, Calif., deputy headquarters for the Air Force Systems Command. Boss of the coast-to-coast construction crew is Lieut. General Howell M. Estes Jr., 46, a tough, taciturn veteran of the Strategic Air Command. Estes and his ballistic systems...
Many admirals are grumbling that President Kennedy's new proposals do little to solve the Navy's two main problems: replacing rapidly obsolescing ships, and replacing the skilled personnel that are being sucked up by the augmented Polaris program with its trusted weapons of nuclear retaliation-six
Polaris subs now in service with 16 missiles apiece, and 23 more subs scheduled for completion by 1964. But the Navy is delighted by its new allotment of $709 million for procurement-the biggest package given any armed service. Most of the money will be spent for strengthening the carrier...
The man who made the nuclear submarine has some explosive reactions to the Navy. Said Vice Admiral Hyman George Rickover, 61, to the House Appropriations Committee last May (according to testimony released last week) : "The Navy would rather have aircraft carriers than any other type of ship, including the Polaris...