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...tank. Nothing betrayed the presence of the most monstrous potential new weapon in the U.S. arsenal-designed to be fired 5,500 miles along a ballistic trajectory reaching 500 miles above the surface of the earth at speeds up to 16,000 m.p.h., to plunge an H-bomb warhead into an enemy target. Under the shroud was Atlas, the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile...
...disproportionately thick waist, its flared skirt, its unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny vacation shore the Bird will be fired, minus its warhead, on an 1,800-mile test shot southeastward across tropic islands and into an empty...
...inhabited" spaceship or satellite. But the missiles, nevertheless, are excellent instruments of approach. Their rocket motors, thin-skinned tanks, delicate guidance systems, etc. can also be used for hitting the moon with a charge of flash powder. This is considered less difficult than boosting a heavy thermonuclear warhead-to a city-sized target 5,000 miles away, and some Air Force groups think that it would be worth doing as a demonstration of U.S. spacemanship. It is probable, however, that space flight will develop through halfway points other than moon shooting for propaganda...
...over a neighbor's backyard, the U.S. learned last week. "The Department of Defense," announced Secretary Charles Wilson, "has begun deployment of nuclear weapons within the United States for air-defense purposes." In plain words, the Continental Air Defense Command now has added the sinew of the nuclear warhead. Atom-armed air-to-air rockets and surface-to-air missiles deployed in strategic places in the U.S. can, if need be, thunder into the path of any known enemy bomber...
...these respects . . . the ICBM is attaining the necessary capability." The ICBM re-entry test vehicle, the Lockheed X17, has made a number of successful flights at critical speeds (which other sources place as high as 26 times the speed of sound). Moreover, "the same guidance system that enables the warhead of a ballistic missile to reach its target . . . would also be sufficiently accurate to hit a target much smaller than the size of the moon, even at that increased range ... I would be willing to venture a guess that 90% of the unmanned follow-on [i.e., interplanetary] projects that...