Word: warheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the development of an intercontinental ballistic with an H-bomb warhead depends more upon the perfection of missile techniques than on H-bomb development. This should not be considered a deterrent to a bomb moratorium...
...facing the experts when he questions the "sense" of further hydrogen development. Even now, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in a desperate race for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a hydrogen payload. For the U.S. to test the missile package without continuing work on its thermonuclear warhead would give the Soviets a disastrous advantage...
Ostensibly, the Terrapin is intended for research only, but both of its propulsive units are of military design. Its payload has not been released, and this suggests strongly that it may be able to carry a lightweight nuclear warhead. Suitably modified for military purposes, the Terrapin may not be very different from the small, atom-armed rocket that the Army calls Little John. A modest increase in size would give it atomic capability...
...Warhead. In Edinburgh, Scotland, arrested for illegal possession of explosives, John Hay Barbour clinched the case against himself when officers watched him doff his hat as he entered the police station, saw a detonator and four sticks of dynamite fall...
NOSE CONES: Avco Manufacturing Corp., General Electric and Lockheed are working at the metallurgical riddle of saving the warhead from disintegrating from heat when it curves back into the stratosphere, 50 to 80 miles up, at 16,000 m.p.h. All are experimenting with new heat-resistant metals...