Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conditions that differ substantially from actual combat." In last week's test the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In an actual attack, an ICBM might spew out "decoys" designed to baffle the tracking radar-as was not the case last week-or an ionospheric nuclear blast might knock out the radar altogether. "As advanced as the Nike-Zeus system is-and we believe it to be quite advanced-it has serious weaknesses," said McNamara last winter. "There is widespread doubt as to whether...
...mile watery commute from his island villa to his port city office in Piraeus. From British shipyards came the world's fastest 102-ft. yacht, capable of 54 knots at top speed. But Mercury gobbled gas at the rate of 115 gallons an hour, the radar went snafu, and two of the three 3,500-h.p. gas turbine engines had to be replaced. "Teething troubles," said the British builder. Feeling the bite himself, the thrifty Greek docked his hot yacht and looked for a buyer...
...most serious military effect probably concerns radar-particularly the powerful radars that are being developed to spot ballistic missiles plunging down from space. A high-altitude nuclear explosion, the AEC explains, acts like an enormous, radar-blinding smoke screen. Radar beams that search the sky for invading warheads may be either absorbed or totally reflected by bomb-ionized air. An enemy hoping to hit a target defended by radar-guided anti-missile missiles might well explode a warhead several hundred miles up to create an electronic smoke screen that would blind defensive radars to other warheads racing toward their targets...
...critics have pointed out, Snow agrees that Lindemann may indeed have acknowledged from the start that radar was an important weapon to develop for the defense of the British Isles. But, he counters, Lindemann almost fatally hampered the successful development of radar by assigning highest priority to his own gimmicks...
...gifted with very acute hearing," he says intensely. "Other people go out on the street to look. I look but do not see. But my ears-they are like radar-clickita-cli-click...