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...devices. They are pre-set on the ground; after the rocket has taken off, it cannot be deflected to a new course, or its aim corrected. All its nursemaids can do is cut off the power by radio. Last week they let it blast away for 59.4 seconds. Super-Vergeltungswaflen of the future, Army experts hoped, would be better trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pushbutton Preview | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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