Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built so that they will float nose-up, might be anchored under the surface in protected places such as the lagoons of Pacific atolls. They would be easily moved, hard for an enemy to find, and almost impossible to damage except by the near-pinpoint hit of a nuclear weapon. Their guidance systems would know exactly where they were, so they could be programed to strike in any desired direction. If an all-out war started, the high-flying minefields should be able to rise from the sea, triggered by electrical or sonic code signals, and carry their megaton warheads...
...parts and pieces of old projects. The mongrelized missile is aptly named Hound Dog. It has real bite. As the U.S.'s first effective plane-launched, jet-propelled air-to-ground missile, Hound Dog adds range and firepower to 1960's most potent operational weapon, the intercontinental B-52s of the Strategic Air Command...
...thrust to the B-52 on takeoff. The Hound Dogs do not interfere with the B-52's normal H-bomb load; each missile simply adds a one-megaton hydrogen punch and an extra reach that combine to make a single B-52 the mightiest weapon ever seen...
...stood before the House of Commons last week, Defense Minister Harold Watkinson wore the pained expression of a man treading on nettles. "In the light of our military advice," intoned Watkinson, "we have concluded . . . that we ought not to continue to develop, as a military weapon, a missile that can be launched only from a fixed site." After six years of work and an expenditure of $280 million, Britain was scrapping its most ambitious military rocket, the 2,500-mile Blue Streak IRBM. The big rocket might be salvaged as a satellite launcher in the space sweepstakes, said Watkinson...
Democrats, whose prime vote getter is U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, a Catholic, exploited the issue for a while; e.g., Congressman Frank Coffin, a Baptist, upheld the defeated local-option school bus bill the day after announcing for Governor. But the harsh weapon of the boycott raised a cry of "intolerance" in the Bangor News and among Protestants, who make up 74.9% of Maine's population. Key Democrats decided that they must water down their school-bus proposal before their state convention opens April 22-featuring an invocation by a rabbi, prayer by a priest, benediction by a Congregational...