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...Right Than President, which imaginatively follows Goldwater to victory and into office, chronicling his first presidential moves, such as withdrawing recognition from Britain, India, Sweden, and Switzerland, kicking the man from the New York Times out of a press conference, warring on poverty with thermonuclear bombs, installing a nuclear warhead in every privately owned plane in the country, and talking with Khrushchev on his ham radio. Says Khrush: "How's by you, Goldbottle...
Even as the U.S. began to deploy Atlas, it pushed on to develop Titan, which could carry a heavier warhead. Yet U.S. intelligence painted a frightening picture of Soviet missile capability. Defense Department experts predicted that the U.S.S.R. could have some 400 long-range missiles by mid-1963, while the U.S. would have only about half that number. This was the so-called "missile gap," which became a 1960 presidential campaign issue. To help plug the anticipated gap, the U.S. deployed 1,500-mile Thor and Jupiter missiles in Europe, then gambled heavily on Polaris and Minuteman. Since their solid...
...thrust at takeoff instead of 360,000, and 100,000 Ibs. of thrust in its second stage. The dummy Gemini capsule, weighted with ballast and instruments, was more than twice as heavy (6,950 Ibs.) as a manned Mercury capsule, though lighter than the 8,200-lb. warhead that the Titan II normally carries on a ballistic flight...
...opening agenda be confined to the Soviet proposal that all nations cut their defense budgets by 10% to 15%. While rejecting this as another unenforceable Red propaganda ploy, the U.S. consented to debate it-but only along with such American proposals as a freeze on nuclear missile and warhead production. This Scratchy scratched...
...WALLEYE is a nonnuclear, 1,000-lb. glide bomb that is simply dropped from an airplane-just as in World War II. After that the resemblance ends, for Walleye is one of the U.S.'s most sophisticated and accurate weapons. In its warhead it carries a television camera -aimed, of course, at the ground. As Walleye falls, the camera sends a picture of the target area back to a screen in the cockpit. The pilot focuses the target picture on his screen and by remote control locks the Walleye guidance system on the target at the same time. Billed...