Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trident submarine program is the most important defense project that the U.S. actually has under construction. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion apiece, the 560-ft.-long Tridents, each armed with 24 missiles, are to begin replacing the 34 aging Polaris and Poseidon subs that now carry the nation's sea-based nuclear warheads. Started in 1971, the Trident program has been racked by stunning cost overruns, delays and an angry feud involving the Navy and the sub's builder, the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corp. By now the first Trident, the U.S.S. Ohio...
Like most facilities engaged in military Research and Development work, the Lab gives no exterior sign of its involvement in the arms race. This involvement has included the development of the Polaris and Poseidon submarines (and their missiles), and now includes the MX missile, the cruise missile, and the Trident sub (with its missiles, the Trident...
Inter-service rivalries continually compel the upgrading of the strategic nuclear "triad" (bombers, land-based missiles, and submarine-launched missiles). Although the Navy already has a perfectly adequate Poseidon submarine force with more than 5000 virtually invulnerable nuclear warheads, this soon will be augmented by the astronomically expensive Trident submarines. (Each sub, without any missiles, is estimated to cost $1.2 billion...
...best known among the few bronzes that survived from this period are the Poseidon in the Athens National Archaeological Museum and the charioteer in Delphi. In their restored state, the two statues at the Florence museum rank with this select company. Scholars and amateurs alike have been fascinated by both the perfection of the preservation and the skill of the statues' creators, as reflected in such details as the whorls of a beard, the braids of a headband, the shiny, silver-plated teeth and the copper lips, eyelashes and nipples...
...radar. Stories about the aircraft began appearing in such technical journals as Defense Daily and Aerospace Daily as early as 1975. The Stealth project was not even stamped classified until 1977 by Defense Secretary Harold Brown; items continued to appear after that year. In 1979 a novel called Poseidon's Shadow described the use of an oddly shaped U.S. spy plane named Stealth F in a confrontation against the Soviets. Author Allen Paul Kobryn says he got the idea from stories in Aviation Week and the New York Times...