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The warheads designed for the Polaris and Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, which the U.S. is depending upon to close the missile gap in the mid-1960s, pack a nuclear punch of about half a megaton, compared with an estimated eight megatons carried by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, and about three...
The seagoing missile laboratory, fitted with exact duplicates of launching tubes aboard the Navy's two Polaris submarines, listed 2^ degrees to starboard. Deep below the ship's afterdeck, a tube holding a Polaris missile was tilted another seven degrees to guarantee that the missile would fire away...
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...