Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eminently successful. For the first time, the Air Force fired its IRBM complete: nose cone, full guidance gear-and ballast in the nose to simulate the weight of its warhead. Thor flew a little under 1,200 nautical miles, landed within less than two nautical miles of its preselected target point. Thus Thor proved to be the leading IRBM in the U.S. arsenal; indeed, its manufacturer, Douglas Aircraft, already boasts the capacity to produce Thor "at almost any rate...
...believe it. One of the best things that could happen to the world right now would be for Khrushchev to launch one of his ICBMs. He could undoubtedly kill a lot of Americans (maybe), but for the next five years he could probably not hit a single significant target. In the meantime SAC could and would pulverize, not Khrushchev, but his military capacities and his industrial strength. The world would be better off. Of course, if we go to sleep during that five-year grace period, we will have lost the war and the world...
...Commander in Europe, read an editorial to his staff one day last week from London's Daily Telegraph. It read: "Each European country has more to gain by augmenting America's retaliatory strength than it has to lose by becoming in the event of war a certain target for Russian assault . . . We must do everything necessary...
Snark, winged, air-breathing and subtonic, will fly five to seven hours to target as opposed to 15 to 30 minutes for the intercontinental ballistic missiles still under development. But Snark can carry thermonuclear warhead accurately to target at 5,000 milerange. And Snark, added or not with countermeasures to confuse enemy radar, is also a highly promising decoy weapon to lure enemy defenders away from main strike forces delivering the decisive blows elsewhere...
...missile is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead to a target 5000 miles away in a flight time of 30 minutes...