Word: skybolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nassau, however, Britian showed that she was not European in this sense at all. Despite the abrupt abandonment of the Skybolt Program, which meant the end of at least semi-independence for the British, Macmillan once again leased the destiny of his country to the United States...
...flanked the U.S. on the "right," just as the British have flanked us on the "left." From the French viewpoint there was grave concern when Khrushchev, during the Cube missiles crisis, opened a private pipeline which bypassed the Western allies and went straight to Kennedy. Now Kennedy, after dropping Skybolt without informing the British, is putting through the same pipeline a test ban treaty which the French don't like and on which they are not being consulted. Under these circumstances, de Gaulle may well want to conduct an independent foreign policy. But his differences with the U.S. take...
Part of the U.S.-British deal was a U.S. offer to develop and sell to Britain at discount prices a nuclear-armed, 1,000-mile, air-launched missile named Skybolt. But late last year Skybolt was churned through McNamara's cost-performance computers and found wanting: as a weapon, McNamara decided, Skybolt was simply not worth the money and effort. His decision made, McNamara flew off to London to tell British Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft the bad news. McNamara had not reckoned on the reaction. Harold Macmillan's Tory government was already on shaky political ground; its Labor...
...concentrating on missiles and aerospace, the airframe companies have become increasingly dependent on the Government, which accounts for 83% of Lockheed's sales and 77% of Douglas'. Despite the dangers of such heavy reliance-as Douglas recently discovered when it lost its $1,000,000,000 Skybolt contract-the planemakers clearly prefer dependence on Washington to again risking financial ruin with commercial jets...
...became patently clear that there was a wide-open, undefended path through Canada for Soviet bombers, Canadian defense officials began secret nuclear negotiations with the U.S. Diefenbaker still hedged. Returning from a Nassau meeting with British Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy, during which Britain agreed to scrap Skybolt bomber-carried missiles in return for Polaris-armed submarines, Diefenbaker told Parliament that bombers had been ruled obsolete. Therefore, he said, there was no need for Canadian nuclear de fense against a transpolar Russian strike...