Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dramatic and significant as the controversy is, most of the issues involved are neither new nor applicable only to the ABM among major military pro grams. The weapon itself has been under discussion for many years without ex citing the degree of fervor it has prompted recently...
...hardly new to controversy. No post-World War II weapon has had so long or difficult a gestation. In the inexorable minuet of military science, each advance in either offense or defense provokes efforts to restore the balance. Fourteen years ago, the So viets had no offensive-missile force to speak of, though they had the ability to build one. U.S. development started in 1955 and soon led to the first, primitive ABM project, the Nike-Zeus. Testing showed that Zeus could indeed stop an incoming missile under ideal conditions; dummy aggressors launched from California were intercepted by defenders based...
...same time, the Russians resisted Lyndon Johnson's initial attempts to open negotiations aimed at checking the nuclear-arms race. Moscow made no secret of the fact that it was going ahead with its own ABM. As early as 1962, Nikita Khrushchev bragged that his anti-missile weapon could...
...exact acceleration ability is secret, but the Army talks of Sprint's climbing 50,000 ft. "in two heartbeats." Sprint would make its interception between 25 and 40 miles from its launch site, relying primarily on the blast and heat effects of its own detonation to incapacitate the aggressor weapon's innards. As with the Spartan, its purpose is not to blow up the opposing RV (reentry vehicle)?which would dump much lethal fallout on the territory below?but to detonate close enough to defuse the warhead. Sprint's own bang, however, would cause a degree of radioactivity...
Awards are given to individual winners as well as to the top team. Three team championships will be presented, one for each weapon--foil, sabre, and epee. Harvard will have to beat the best 13 teams in the East to win the title...