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...second special university issue of Negro Digest (March 1969). This is an important communique, and one that Harding knows will infuriate many of the black militants who scream for new Afro-American studies departments to spring up fully-armed on northern campuses overnight like Athena from the head of Zeus. The issues Harding raises here will not be popular, but they are ones that must be realistically faced and dealt with by all involved. At any rate, for the next few years the American campus is going to be a most exciting field of battle--whether this will be more...
...limited ar eas. Consequently, Dwight Eisen hower barred production of the Zeus, but directed the Pentagon to pursue efforts to develop a bet ter system...
...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 on Kwajalein...
...Zeus, however, was merely "a bullet that could stop a bullet," whereas the anticipated threat was a shotgun blast of many projectiles aimed at the U.S. With limited range, relatively low speed and me chanically operated radars that could handle only one target at a time, Zeus offered only "terminal defense" ? protection
...types of missiles and electronically operated radars that can handle numerous targets simultaneously (see box next page). Theoretically, at least, the Nike-X proj ect ? which is still receiving $175 million a year in development funds ? thus overcame some of the main technical problems posed by Zeus...