Word: raborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain's cabin of the U.S.S. Observation Island off Cape Canaveral one afternoon, when an exultant Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr. congratulated his skippers on the first successful firing of a Polaris missile from a submerged submarine, only one newsman was present. He was Miami Bureau Chief William Shelton, one of only two reporters who have covered every major missile shot in the Cape's history...
...megaton, compared with an estimated eight megatons carried by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, and about three or four megatons in the nose cone of the U.S.'s Atlas ICBM. With additional nuclear tests, the yield of the Polaris and Minuteman warheads could be significantly increased, although Admiral William Raborn Jr. has said he needs no further tests of the present Polaris warhead. Some U.S. scientists and military men would like further testing to develop "clean" nuclear weapons with little fallout. The U.S. has developed small warheads, with a yield of less than one kiloton,* for use in tactical weapons...
...dates by ten weeks. The Navy's eventual fleet of 18 nuclear Polaris subs (by 1964) will berth and load missiles at a new $26.5 million base seven miles above the Charleston, S.C. harbor on the Cooper River. At dedication ceremonies last week, Rear Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, chief of the Polaris project, looked confidently beyond the Polaris' 1,200-mile range of 1960, predicted a 1,500-mile range by 1962 and an eventual 2,500-mile nuclear reach for the Navy's remarkable missile...
...After that," says Skipper Osborn, "our war is over, and we go home." Three Years Ahead. The technological war to get the Polaris weapon systems built got started just three years ago with an encouraging kick from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said Burke to Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr., officer in charge: "Tell me what you have done, not what you are going to do." Raborn cut years off the schedule (original target date: 1963), partly by starting in on a hull that was already in construction (the first Skipjack). The parallel program for the development...
...subs at the rate of one every four months; a total of $2.7 billion has been appropriated for it. The Navy has successfully fired dummy missiles from below the surface, and the development versions of Polaris missile have made good scores in surface firings (more than 900 miles). If Raborn can keep his promise to make Polaris operational late this year, George Washington will be three years ahead of schedule-and uncounted years ahead in the singular art of nuclear warfare...