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Devastating Deterrent. In those two 15-minute flights, Polaris gave firm promise that the U.S. is ready to move into a new age of security and deterrence with a revolutionary weapons system. The nuclear subs that are its launching platforms can roam the world's oceans at will, difficult to detect and destroy, ready to deliver their lethal birds on targets 1,200 miles away with an accuracy within a mile. One sub alone packs 16 missiles, and each shipload of missiles packs the explosive punch of all the bombs expended by both sides in World War II (including...
...PERT charts, Raborn could spot trouble in advance-at Sunnyvale, Calif., where Lockheed Aircraft Corp., prime contractors for the missile kept 9,000 men on the job, at the new plant near Sacramento where Aerojet-General Corp. was working on solid-fuel rocket engines, at the Groton, Conn, sub pens of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. From weekly progress reports he could tell where to pour on extra effort to break a prospective bottleneck. Contractors had a hard time keeping up with Raborn's knowledge of what was going on in their own plants...
...Electric Boat's Groton yard, a nuclear-attack sub of the Skipjack class was well along in construction. Her reactor and control-room sections were nearly completed. By chopping that 250-ft vessel in half and inserting a 130-ft missile bay in her midriff, she could be commissioned in two years as a Polaris submarine. But though he knew his scheme was technically possible, Raborn still had to convince himself that U.S. industry would work as hard as his new schedule required...
George W. Corner, is that of the Dionne quintuplets. Developed from a single fertilized ovum, which then repeatedly sub divided, all the girls had the defect. Fortunately, it was minor : nothing more than a slight webbing between the second and third toes of each foot...
Voices in the Night. On his 40-day, 4,000-mile journey, Chichester not only missed being run down; he saw only three other ships. Once a Russian tanker, jammed with radar gear, circled him cautiously, apparently decided he was not a Polaris sub, and steamed away. One dusk, said Chichester, "I thought I heard voices. I poked my head out of the cabin. Alongside was a freighter; people were sitting on the bridge, having evening drinks." Battered by huge waves, isolated by fog, Chichester slept only four to six hours a night, fought his loneliness by writing...