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From 1958 to 1961, the WARP studied 12 major defense contracts including the Atlas, Jupiter, and Polaris missiles, the F4H intercepter, and the Nike Zeus anti-missile. Their case studies covered more than 1200 draft pages...
...Essay "It's Time to Change the Guard" [Oct. 20] was most thought provoking. However, it should be noted that the manning of 43% of the Nike Hercules missile sites deployed throughout the U.S. is by Army National Guardsmen and not by Air National Guardsmen as your article states...
...Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions, and Atlas and Titan missiles from California end their long trial runs with gigantic splashes in the Kwajalein lagoon...
...nuclear power and buffeted by intense congressional pressure, the Administration has made a far-reaching decision. In a speech prepared for delivery this week in San Francisco, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that the U.S. plans to begin deploying a limited ABM system based on the Army's Nike...
...present, the Administration will need no additional funds. The current $70 billion defense budget, approved only last week, includes $817 million for development and deployment of the system; another $168 million was appropriated last year for work on Nike X but never used. The decision to deploy the "thin" defense does not preclude future agreement with Moscow-though once U.S. and Russian ABMs are in place, it will be difficult to dismantle them. Further, the thin line could later be thickened if U.S. strategists concluded that Moscow posed a real threat of a missile attack...