Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near-flawless display of precision rocketry, the U.S. last week added two formidable new weapons systems to its nuclear arsenal. The Navy's fleet ballistic missile Poseidon and the Air Force's powerful Minuteman III ICBM, both on their maiden tests, winged like homing pigeons to their targets from two launching areas at Cape Kennedy. Their dual success was remarkable, but what distinguished the solid-fuel missiles even more was their potential. Each is designed to carry Multiple Individually-Targetable Re-entry Vehicles (MIRV), comprising as many as ten separate nuclear warheads ticketed for preselected targets...
...stage Poseidon was first to lift off, at 6:30 a.m. Roaring up from darkness into the Florida dawn, the missile was illuminated by the rays of the rising sun. Leaving a psychedelic trail of ionized gases, it streaked away. Barely 10 minutes had elapsed after lift-off when it was announced that Poseidon had sped to a perfect splashdown, 1,150 miles away down the Atlantic missile range. Then came the taller, three-stage Minuteman III. Launched at 4:30 p.m. in a geyser of orange flame, it raced 5,000 miles to another brilliant on-target splashdown near...
...future, General Dynamics is in line for a pair of plums: likely to become $1 billion projects are the jobs of refitting Polaris subs to handle the advanced Poseidon missile and building a new Navy Standard Missile to supplement two of its earlier products, the Tartar and the Terrier...
...rest of the new military budget will finance the gradual modernization and replenishment of the U.S. arsenal, a process that has become routine in the cold war. It provides no fancy new weapons except those previously planned. One such is the Poseidon missile, which will replace the less accurate and less powerful Polaris birds in the tubes of most of the 41 nuclear submarines. A contingency fund of $377 million is earmarked for initial production and deployment of antiballistic missiles in the event that negotiations with the Russians to bar such weapons fail. Thus, large as it is, the defense...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara acknowledged that "we must assume they will deploy an effective system," even though U.S. missiles and bombers will still be able to penetrate Russian defenses. To enhance the U.S. retaliatory capability, McNamara has recommended production and deployment of the Poseidon missile-a king-size, submarine-fired weapon armed with a bigger brain and decoys with which it can filter through an anti-ballistic defense. The Pentagon has also ordered a special nine-month study of whether the U.S. should build an even bigger super-rocket, tentatively designated the ICM (for Increased Capability Missile...