Word: warheads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bitter Debate. The U.S. continued testing, at Nevada and in the Pacific, from Operation Teapot through Operation Hardtack in October of 1958. During that period, the scientists tested tactical atomic weapons, dropped an H-bomb from a B-52, fired a depth charge, triggered a missile warhead 100 miles high, tried fallout-free underground testing...
...separated and went astern, the first of the two-stage missile's solid-fuel engines ignited, spouting a rooster tail of naming gas. Quickly Skybolt accelerated, spurted far ahead of the B-52, turned its nose upward and climbed sharply out of sight. By the time its dummy warhead splashed in the ocean far downrange, it was clear that Skybolt, which has been under forced-draft development by Douglas Aircraft Co. for nearly three years, was well along the difficult road toward deployment with the Strategic Air Command...
...combination makes a splendid weapon. (In Britain, even before last week's test, R.A.F. pilots were itching to strap the rockets under the wings of their Vulcan bombers.) A combat-ready B-52 will carry four Sky-bolts under its wings, each armed with a nuclear warhead that will make it as devastating as the submarine-borne Polaris missiles that are now in service. Both in eventual impact and versatility on the way to its target, Skybolt is an impressive testament to nuclear age technology...
...enemy centers, they are far more versatile than any fixed launching pad. Their Skybolts can approach targets from any direction, forcing an enemy to watch the whole sky rather than concentrate on already computed missile routes. And no effective defense is likely against the Skybolt's nuclear warhead, which will plunge out of space like an ICBM that has come from the far side of the earth...
...Development tests of new weapons. Ogle's scientists will be trying to improve the vital weight-yield ratio-a bigger blast from a smaller package. Special attention will be paid to the nuclear warhead of the Nike Zeus, the missile being developed by the Army to intercept enemy warheads as they hurtle down on the U.S. To find out how the blast of a Nike Zeus will affect a missile at high altitudes, the scientists will make at least one test of the weapon on the warhead of an Atlas, one of the prime missiles in the U.S. arsenal...