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...break-in by intruders who also shot his wife and a live-in housekeeper; at their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled Lockheed's profits. A courtly Boston-born Harvard man who enjoyed such amenities as English-tailored suits and custom-made shoes, he could also answer half seriously, when...
Nancy Stevenson, whose state is home to a Poseidon missile factory and the nation's only weapons-grade plutonium plant: "These installations have been here for years, but I do think our people are now uncomfortably aware that South Carolina plays a far greater role than we would wish in nuclear matters." Even more remarkable has been the reception given to four saffron-clad Buddhist monks from Japan, who are trudging along highways in the South chanting prayers of peace. The monks believe that the ground they cross will be protected from nuclear war; they began their pilgrimage from...
Third, the program continues construction of Trident submarines--which carry 24 missiles as opposed to 16 carried by Poseidon subs--at a rate of one per year, initially to house the Trident-I, which is also being installed in existing Poseidon submarines. The program will also develop a larger 6000-mile range Trident-II missile for deployment on Trident submarines in 1989. It will also deploy several hundred submarine-launched missiles beginning in 1984. Both the cruise missiles and the Trident-II missiles will be much more accurate than current submarine-launched ballistic missiles; in the event that our land...
...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...