Word: warheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter of the boost would go to U.S. guided missile development, which has so far got into production the relatively short-range Nike, Terrier, Sparrow, Falcon, Corporal. Regulus, Matador and Honest John. The 1,000-to-1,500 mile range Intermediate Range Ballistics Missile with nuclear warhead, still on the drawing boards, would probably be the main new development. Research would also be heavily concentrated on the Intercontinental Ballistics Missile, which may have a thermonuclear warhead. Wilson cautioned that the I.C.B.M. is still at least five years away...
...advanced stage of development is the Rascal, an air-to-ground strategic missile that will be released high in the air from a bomber and carry a nuclear warhead about 100 miles...
...target. An IBM could super-whoosh along at 4,000 to 5,000 miles an hour and cross the Atlantic in as little as 30 or 40 minutes. Automatic navigation on the stars should keep the error at target within eight miles, a near miss with an atomic warhead...
...last Hitler was persuaded to watch a film of a V-2's flight. He was wildly enthusiastic but demanded that the one-ton warhead be increased to ten tons. When told that this was technically impossible, he cried: "But what I want is annihilation -annihilating effect!" Dornberger had to explain that the V-2s, in effect, were long range artillery. Even if they worked perfectly, they could not annihilate England...
...would be about 46,000 ft. per sec. (31,000 m.p.h.). At this enormous, meteorlike speed, he figures, a particle only five-thousandths of an inch in diameter would punch through the satellite's skin. Since each pound of metal contains more than a million such particles, a warhead weighing 8,000 Ibs. would punch 8.000 holes in the satellite station. The deadly little particles would be moving in slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter widely, then concentrate again. Each time the damaged satellite circled the earth, it would run into the cloud of particles...