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...atom-bomb project. After the war he continued to advise the Government on high-level scientific problems, including thermonuclear weapons and guided missiles. In 1955 he became a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. His advice was instrumental in convincing the Department of Defense that a high-yield thermonuclear warhead could be made light enough to be carried across an ocean by a ballistic missile of practicable size. This thermonuclear breakthrough now dominates the thinking of the U.S. (and probably of the U.S.S.R.) about strategic warfare...
RASCAL MISSILE, an air-to-surface, electronically guided rocket that carries a nuclear warhead, will go into limited production. Bell Aircraft Corp. has been awarded $22 million in Air Force contracts to make and test prototypes...
SUPERSONIC TALOS, Navy's top-rated missile for -long-range antiaircraft defense, will go into operational use within the next twelve months under the first big production contract. Navy has placed $27 million order with Bendix Aviation Corp. for surface-to-air missile capable of carrying atomic warhead, will step up weapon's 75-mile range to 100 miles. Cruisers Little Rock and Galveston now are being converted to carry Talos...
According to Bergaust, the Polaris will be a rather fat missile 40 ft.-50 ft. long and about 8 ft. in diameter. Its range will be more than 800 miles, and it will carry a nuclear warhead. Instead of liquid fuels, which the Navy considers too dangerous and undependable to use in a submarine, the Polaris will have a solid propellant. It may be launched directly out of a special compartment in the submarine, or it may be released and allowed to float upward before its main motor ignites. Perhaps the submarine will have raised some sort of antenna above...
...missile's ground-locked pilots realized it was out of control, they pushed the button that was supposed to blow it up in midair. But the Snark refused to commit suicide. When last seen by radar, it was slipping over the South American horizon. Happily, it carried no warhead...