Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov, 29--The Air Force announced today it is at work on a new weapon of the future--an antimissile missile called the Wizard...
...first operational unit (about 16, by present tables) could be deployed in Europe by the middle of next year. Within two years, a monthly output of 100 Thors is considered feasible at a cost of less than $1,000,000 per bird. The Army Jupiter is an equivalent IRBM weapon-and also a good one. But no production line now exists for the Jupiter; those fired so far were "hand-tooled." i.e., individually assembled. Question still to be resolved: whether to concentrate exclusively on Thor or Jupiter or build both...
Cocktail-party diplomacy was not the bouncing Russian strongman's only propaganda weapon last week (see box). Two days later Nikita Khrushchev laid about him again in an interview (conducted without the aid of interpreters) with the U.P.'s veteran Moscow Correspondent
...whole new problem confronts the system. The cold fact: it cannot detect missiles. Warns Air Force General Earle E. Partridge, Commander in Chief of NORAD (North American Air Defense): "If the aggressor's weapon is the ICBM, the continent stands today almost as naked as it did in 1946, for I have no radar to detect missiles and no defense against them...
...When he was not stopping punches with his face, former Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer was forced to use every weapon he had as he tried to fight his way past Las Vegas' Neal Rivers for another crack at the title. For ten rounds he threw fists, forehead and shoulders with fierce abandon, and for ten rounds he caught as much as he threw. The verdict: a split decision for Fullmer. The surgical count: 16 stitches for Fullmer, only six for Rivers...