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...nose-cone problem-how to bring a missile's warhead down through the atmosphere without too much heat damage-can be approached in very complicated or in very simple ways. A simple way that looks promising for even the fastest-falling missiles: sheathe the cone with Astrolite, a plastic made by H. I. Thompson Fiber Glass Co. of Los Angeles. Astrolite looks like the familiar brownish material used in workers' hard hats, but the fibers that reinforce the plastic are silica (quartz) instead of glass...
...Capabilities. The new Minuteman ICBM is a three-stage rocket, 57 ft. long, weighing 65,000 lbs., with predicted 5,500-mile range. It is designed to pack a thermonuclear warhead smaller than that of the liquid-fueled ICBM Atlas, but big enough to take out major targets. Its major components can be broken down to make shorter-range missiles; by itself the missile's third stage could make a useful tactical ballistic missile (TBM) with 500-to 1,000-mile range; its second and third stages would combine to make a 1,500-mile IRBM for use from...
...series of ten science programs that will stretch into next season. After a talky start, the hour-long program settled down with Dr. Kuiper and Dr. H. Julian ("Harvey") Allen, a rumpled giant who devised the blunt-nose cone that can safely return a missile warhead through the atmosphere without burning up with friction. One startling sequence: a blunt-nose staying intact during lab tests while a white-hot, pointed-nose disintegrated. Conquest's point: science and scientists can make fascinating fare without the support of capering cartoons or high-powered hokum...
...strategic penetration aids," i.e., air-to-ground missiles designed to be lifted almost all the way to target by subsonic 6-47 and 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers, then let fly at supersonic speed at ranges of 100 miles or more to dump hydrogen warheads onto targets. Just about operational is the Air Force's 100-mile, 1,000-m.p.h. Bell Rascal, already in pilot production. North American's Project WS-131B is an experimental supersonic hydrogen-warhead item with a 350-mile range. And Convair's new supersonic 6-58 jet bomber carries...
...cities its operational point-defense missile Nike Ajax, a beam rider with a range of about 25 miles, but Nike Ajax can easily be deflected by enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid-fuel Hawk, designed to meet attack by enemy bombers scooping in at low level beneath U.S. radar...