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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surest guarantee of protection is offensive-not defensive-power. The tremendous cost of a defensive missile program would seriously compete with the evolving knockout strike force. Moreover, to stop an ICBM effectively-once its course is determined-an anti-ICBM must be launched into the trajectory from the target vicinity, and ICBM targets in the U.S. will be strike-force bases, not cities; therefore, even Nike sites are already wasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Something for a Scabbard | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ultrasound Surgery | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...long ranges than ballistic missiles are. but he thinks that skip missiles will get too much heating and jolting during their violent acrobatics. Glide missiles will have to contend with heat only, and he thinks they can take it. When they speed through the high atmosphere toward a target 5,000 miles away, the temperature of their skin may reach about 1,600° F. This is a bright red-hot, but Eggers seems to think that proper material and careful design can bring the missile safely through its ordeal of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hypermissile | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...danger of such confrontation can be reduced by evasive maneuvers at hypervelocity. Instead of bulling its way to its target like a crude ICBM, a hyperspeed missile will either skip or glide. If it skips, it will climb into space about half as high as a ballistic missile of the same range. Instead of plunging down to earth, it will skip off the top of the atmosphere like a flat stone off the surface of a pond. By doing this several times, if necessary, it can reach a distant target over an unpredictable course. The glide missile is simpler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hypermissile | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...safe to guess that the enormous amount of money and effort already expended on hypervelocity flight would not be made available without a military motive. There is some slim chance of countering a crude ballistic missile that can follow only a predictable course to a single target. But a hypervelocity missile that moves about as fast and can change its course in mid-flight or take evasive action will be almost "ultimately" hard to counter. Such subtly steered invaders will be the answer to the still-untested anti-missile missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hypermissile | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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