Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triton is the first nuclear submarine designed for the submarine's classic role of scouting. Her job is to roam out on the surface hundreds of miles ahead of naval task forces, scanning the skies with powerful radar. She carries the biggest crew (about 150), and, powered by twin reactors, can dive faster and cruise farther than any of her nuclear sisters...
...world found out last week, Francis Powers, onetime U.S. Air Force first lieutenant, was off on an intrepid flight that would ultimately carry him up the spine of the Soviet Union. From south to north, his high-flying instruments would record the effectiveness of Russian radar, sample the air for radioactive evidence of illicit nuclear tests. The U2's sensitive infra-red cameras could sweep vast arcs of landscape, spot tall, thin smokestacks or rocket blasts-if there were any-on pads far below...
Fringe of Space. Soon after the cold war began, heavily loaded U.S. patrol bombers began lugging cameras and electronic gear around the rim of Russia to scout out Soviet radar defenses. As they fought their ill-equipped, cold-war intelligence battles, they counted their casualties from Siberia to Armenia. Some five years ago the Central Intelligence Agency asked California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. to design an almost incredible plane. It must be capable of deep penetration of the Soviet land mass; it must be able to fly far above the possibility of interception-out on the fringes of space...
Teacher John Vernon, 30, of St. Stephen's (Anglican) school in Burnley, England, is known for giving his ten-year-olds prickly essay themes. Recently, Vernon told the youngsters that Britain's new early warning radar system would beep just four minutes before the inbound swoosh of a nuclear missile. "Would there be any way of escape?" asked one little girl. "None," Vernon replied firmly as he announced the essay assignment for the day: Describe "My Last Four Minutes...
Every pilot is familiar with ordinary turbulence, which is generally caused by thunderstorms or some other violent weather disturbance in the lower atmosphere. Pilots avoid the worst bumps by dodging the thick clouds in which vertical air currents hide. Radar helps by spotting the veils of rain or hail that mark the violent heart of a storm. But clear air turbulence is invisible both to human eyes and to any known kind of radar...