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...miles ground to air (TIME, Dec. 10). Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker decorated the Redstone Arsenal's most famous missile scientist, ex-German Missileman Wernher von Braun, boosted the Army's claim that its 1,500-mile missile Jupiter is superior to the rival Air Force Thor and is in fact "the most advanced guided missile yet produced in the free world...
...Jupiter's interservice rival, the Air Force's Thor. was successfully fired for the third time-this time over a record-breaking 2,500-mile range (but without the target-seeking accuracy of Jupiter, the Army groused in a fresh outburst of characteristic Pentagon hostility...
...antiaircraft) missiles and 200 miles for ground-to-ground (artillery) missiles. The Army went on developing an intermediate range (1,500 miles) ballistic missile in hope that the Army's missile mission would be broadened later on. Result: continued costly rivalry between the Air Force's Thor and its Army cousin Jupiter...
...assistant, William Holaday. The problem was urgent. With IRBM production soon to be vital for NATO defense, and with Russia apparently well along in IRBM development, the President and the National Security Council had tagged the IRBM program with top priority. But the problem was also agonizingly tough. The Thor-Jupiter committee started meditating last August, but one of the first decisions announced by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy when he took over from Wilson a fortnight ago was a postponement of the final decision. The committee had reported that it needed data from additional test firings of each missile...
Meanwhile, the Navy has gone on developing its own IRBM to be launched from submarines or surface ships. Weighing only one-third as much as Thor or Jupiter, and burning easier-to-handle solid fuel instead of liquid, the Navy's Polaris promises to be a more efficient all-round IRBM than either of its rivals. If it were as far along in development as Thor and Jupiter, a case could be argued for making it the nation's production-line IRBM...