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...Army last week claimed a significant accomplishment for Nike Zeus, its 48-ft. nuclear-tipped anti-missile missile. Fired from New Mexico's White Sands missile range, a Nike Zeus locked on a ranging Nike Hercules; in the first real test of its interceptor capacity, the Zeus homed in and detonated close enough to be within "lethal radius" if it had carried a nuclear warhead...
...Soviet tests indicated substantial advances in the development of entire atomic weapons systems-particularly including progress in the anti-missile missile area, in which the U.S. is lagging and cannot pick up real impetus until it resumes its own atmospheric testing. The U.S. anti-missile missile, Nike-Zeus, will not even be ready for check-out testing until...
...students, it is our job to think," proceeded Meyer, criticizing the apathy of the American people. He painted a grim picture of the present situation: nuclear warheads being installed on Nike missles, atomic submarines and bombers in constant readiness, shelters being built and armed with machine guns...
...parlayed its World War II radar-directed antiaircraft gun control system into prime contracts for the Nike series (Ajax, Hercules, Zeus) of antiaircraft and antimissile rockets. Defense business last year was 27% of sales of A. T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary...
...Early Warning System, which will give 15 minutes' warning of an attack. To speed detection by priceless minutes, the program also steps up work on Midas, a satellite-borne, spy-in-the-sky warning system. To counter an enemy's manned bombers, the bill will improve the Nike-Hercules and Bomarc ground-to-air missiles, beef up the F-101, F-102 and F106 interceptors...