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A-1, 153, 154, 241
A-2, 153, 154, 241
A-3, 153, 154, 177, 241
Abelson, Philip H., 30
ABM, 120, 177, 178-80,196-223, 225-26, 241
arms race implications of, 188, 210-12
decisions on deployment of, 23, 185, 218-23, 232
Nike-Zeus, see Nike-Zeus missile
1969 debate on, 58, 153, 154, 174
physicists' vote against, 10
protection of U.S. deterrent
rejection of proposal to deploy, 21
Safeguard, 23, 183, 196, 197, 202, 213-15, 219, 226
safeguard of Minuteman by, 203-204
Senate vote on, 198
Sentinel, 195-96, 202
Soviet, 46, 176, 179-80, 201
workability of, 204-10, 215-18
A-bombs, 11, 40, 44, 47, 157, 231
H-bomb compared with, 35-36
Soviet, 12, 16, 32, 34, 36
Advanced manned strategic aircraft, see AMSA
Advanced Research Projects Agency, see ARPA
AEC, 112, 122, 241
Division of Outer Space Development, 121
H-bomb development and, 37-38, 222
nuclear airplane and, 61-62, 64-67, 236
underground test program of, 45
Aerospace Corporation, 22, 88
Aerospace Plane, 130, 131
Agena stage, 105
Aircraft, see Bobers; Nuclear airplane; and specific types of aircraft
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion, see ANP
Air Force, U.S., 117, 142, 152, 236
advisers on weapons to, 18, 85
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Air Force, U.S., continued
establishment of WDD by, 86
GSETD assignments by, 87, 88
missile and rocket programs under, 18, 20, 52, 81, 94, 95, 97, 101, 126, 208
nuclear-airplane involvement by, 61, 63, 65-67, 81, 82
satellite program of, 104, 105, 127, 128, 135
space programs of, 126, 130, 138
Air Research and Development Command of the U.S. Air Force, see ARDC
Alsos (Goudsmit), 31
American Physical Society, 10, 46
AMSA, 241
ANP, 51, 53, 131, 155, 223, 241
development program of, 64, 66-67, 70, 71
U.S. reaction to possibility of Russian, 69-74
Anti-ballistic-missile, see ABM
Apollo program, 30, 81, 132, I S I
ARDC, 86, 127, 241
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, U.S., 22
Arms race, 15, 18, 103
decline in national security due to, 228-30, 233
futility of, 21-22
individual reasons for promoting, 234-37
nuclear disarmament, 239
role of Manhattan project in, 29-32
U.S. actions stimulating, 230-31, 237-38
U.S.S.R's role in, 228-30
Army, U.S., 85, 137
efforts for space programs, 142
joint committee with Navy, 100, 101
missile and rocket programs of, 82, 98, 138, 139, 140-41, 193, 214
satellite program of, 105
Von Braun group and, 20, 21
Army Ballistic Missile Agency, 137
Army Ordnance and Missile Command, 138
ARPA, 21, 127, 143, 193, 241
establishment of, 20, 115, 120, 144
first assignments of, 117-18
military space program responsibilities of, 136-39
projects with Air Force and, 128, 135
Atlas-Agena satellite launcher, 126, 162
Atlas missile, 54, 55, 95, 103, 111, 187
accuracy requirement of, 181
basic design of, 92-93, 96
development of, 86-88
early version of, 82
launching of capsule' by, 132, 151
orbiting of, 135
purpose of, 84, 104
range of, 94
rocket engines powering, 81
storage of, 149-50, 152
Titan compared with, 102
Titan's replacement of, 96-97
warhead of, 89-90
Atomic bombs, 16, 30
effects of. 27-28
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Atomic Energy Commission,
U.S., see AEC
Atomic Energy Matters, Special
Assistant for, 38
Aviation Week, 71
B-17, 49
B-24, 49
B-29, 49
B-36, 49
B-47, 50, 51
B-52, 45, 50, 53
development of, 51
B-58, 50, 51
B-70, 51-52, 60, 131, 155, 158, 235, 236
development program for, 53-58
termination of, 59
Bacher, Robert, 66, 67, 114
Ballistic-missile development program, 53
Ballistic-missile early-warning system, see BMEWS
Bambi, 131, 143
Beckler, David Z., 149
Bell, David, 57
Bethe, Hans, 198, 199, 207
Betts, Brigadier General Austin R., 148, 196
Biehl, Arthur T., 39, 67
BMEWS, 120, 187, 241
Bohr, Niels, 29
Bomarc missile, 188, 190
Bombers, 49-59, 169, 202, 203, 231
Bradbury, Norris E., 32
Bradner, Hugh, 17
Brennan, Donald, 13, 198, 220, 221
Brown, Harold, 17, 22, 23, 39, 119. 148. 165,. 173, 194
Brucker, Wilber M.' 101, 138, 140, 141, 142
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 160
Bundy, McGeorge, 149, 168
California Institute of Technology, 114, 137
California, University of (Berkeley), 17
California, University of, Radiation Laboratory, 15, 17, 30
Canterbury, General William, 65
Centaur, 127, 136
CEP, 88, 174, 175, 181, 199, 241
Charyk, Dr. Joseph V., 147
Chayes, Abram, 198, 206
Chemical bombs, atomic bomb, compared with, 33-34
Chicago, University of, Metallurgical Laboratory, 30
China
missile threat by, 195, 206
See also Sino-Soviet bloc
Chrysler Corporation, 140
Churchill, Winston, 29
CIA, 115
Circular error probable, sec CEP
Clark, Rear Admiral John, 20, 117
Claw warhead, 153, 177
Clifford, Clark, 196, 203
Cohn, Roy M., 142
Columbia University, 30
Compton, Arthur H., 30
Congressional Aviation Policy Board, 62
Convair Corporation, 68, 82, 93
Corporal missile, 82
Countdown for Decision ( Medaris), 105, l 42
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DDRE, 194, 241
creation of, 10, 120, 144
Defense Department and, 21, 23, 138
responsibilities of, 20-21, 67, 118-19, 140
space program and, 138-39
Defender program, 193, 194
Defense, Department of, 142, 201 B-70
budgeting by, 56
creation of ARPA by, 20, 118
DDRE and, 21, 23, 138
establisment [sic] of, 125
nuclear airplane and, 61, 63-65
reaction to Sputnik by, 112, 115, 116, 118, 126
thermonuclear weapons- programs and, 38
Defense, Secretary of, 13, 119, 139
advisers on weapons to, 18, 21, 23, 85
Office of, 116, 117
Defense Reorganization Act of 1958, 10, 20, 118, 120, 141, 148
Defensive programs, 188-212
active and passive, 223
air, 188-92
offensive weapons and, 192-93, 194, 216
DEW line, 188, 242
Director of Defense Research and Engineering, see DDRE
Disarmament, nuclear, 239
Discoverer satellites, 127, 135
Distant early-warning line
see DEW Line
Doolittle, General James H., 114, 115
Dornberger, General Walter, 77,129
Draper, Stark, 54, 86, 89
Dryden, Hugh L., 115, 139
DuBridge, Lee, 15, 149
Dyna-Soar, 129-30, 131, 235
Dyson, Freeman, 158, 159, 160, 198
Einstein, Albert, 29, 238
letter to Roosevelt by, 31
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18, 19, 124
ANP program and, 66, 72-73
B-70 and, 55, 56
farewell address of, 9-14
reaction to Sputnik by, 113
Eniwetok, Operation Greenhouse at, 17, 39
Explorer 1, 105, 108
F-108, 158, 242
Fairchild Engine and Aircraft Company, 61
Fallout, radioactive, 43-44, 46
Fermi, Enrico, 29, 30
Fields, General Kenneth El., 122
Fink, Dr. Daniel, 173, 198
Fisk, James B., 114
Fission weapons, see A-bombs
FOBS, 143, 201, 231, 242
Foreign Affairs, 158, 168
Foster, John S., Jr., 17, 22, 39, 173, 174, 194, 196
Fractional orbital bombardment system, see FOBS
Froman, Darol, 86
Fubini, Eugene, 119
Fusion weapons, see H-bombs
Gagarin, Yuri, I 11
Gaither Panel, 114
GALCIT, 78
Gardner, Trevor, 18, 84, 86
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Garwin, Richard, 207 House of Representatives, 112,
Gates, Thomas S., 21, 69, 119, 119, 139, 140, 141, 152, 154, 155
Gemini capsules, 151
General Dynamics/Astronautics, 63, 93, 136
General Electric Company, 63, 65, 68, 74, 93, 117, 235
General systems engineering and technical direction, see GSETD
Gilpatric, Roswell, 69
Gise, Lawrence, 117
Glenn, John, 111
Glennan, T. Keith, 137, 138, 139
Goddard, Robert H., 78
Goldwater, Barry, 56, 57
Gore, Albert, 196, 200
Goudsmit, Samuel, 31
Government Operations Committees, 112
Groves, General Leslie, 30
GSETD, 18, 87, 88, 242
Hahn, Otto, 29
H-bombs, 11, 35, 47, 89, 157, 222, 231
A-bomb compared with, 35-36
development of, 16-17, 39-41, 44-45
Oppenheimer's opposition to, 36-39
Herzfeld, Charles, 198
Hiroshima, Japan, 16, 27, 28, 30, 42, 47
Hitler, Adolf, 29
Hoffman, Fred, 183
Hornig, Donald F., 194, 197, 213
House Armed Services Committee, 55, 57, 146, 156, 236
House of Representatives, 112, 119
House Science and Astronautics Committee, 119
Hudson Institute, 220
Hydrogen bombs, see H-bombs
ICBM, 90, 139, 193, 203, 209, 211, 242
development of, 88, 97, 181
launching of, 186-87
number of, 166, 200, 201
OBS compared with, 143
priority of, 53
protection of land- based, 183, 202
reentry nose cone of, 93 Soviet, 106, 109-11, 127, 147, 231
technological importance of, 157
See also Atlas missile; Minuteman missile; SS-9; SS-11; Titan missile
IGY, 99, 104, 105, 110, 242
Inertial-guidance system, 77, 81, 86, 92, 93, 152, 154
Institute for Defense Analyses. 23
Intercontinental ballistic missile, see ICBM
Intermediate-range ballistic missile, see IRBM
International Geophysical Year, see IGY
IRBM, 54, 95, 101, 140, 201, 231, 242
Isotopes hydrogen, 17
separation of uranium, I15, 29. 30, 41
U 235. 27, 30, 32
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Jackson, Henry M., 37, 210, 220, 221-22
JATO, 78, 80, 242
JCAE, 112, 242
H-bomb views by, 37, 121
nuclear-airplane support by, 61, 63-67 69, 71, 235
views on space programs by, 121-22, 236
Jet-assisted takeoff, see JATO
Jet propulsion, 60
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, see JPL
Johnson, Gerald, 39
Johnson, Lyndon B., 168
ABM decisions by, 194, 195
Senate committee chaired by. 119-21, 134
Johnson, Roy W., 20, 117, 143
Johnson Committee, 119-21, 134
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 23, 127, 134, 194
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, see JCAE
JPL, 137, 138, 242
Juno I, 135, 136, 137
Jupiter missile, 134, 235
C version of, 105, 110-11 134-36
decision to terminate, 140-41
deployment of, 101
purpose of, 84
rocket engines powering, 81
Thor compared with, 98-100, 102-3
K-25, 16, 30, 242
Kalitinsky, Andrew, 68
Keeny, Spurgeon, 149
Keirn, General Donald, 64, 65, 66-67, 70, 72
Kennedy, John F., 155, 156
estimate of nuclear stockpile by, 41
first defense program outlines of, 57
Kill probability, 173, 174, 199
accuracy versus, 175
MIRV, 174, 181
Killian, James R., Ir., 10, 19, 22. 66, 113, 115-16, 119, 148
Kistiakowsky, Dr. George B., 19, 22, 55, 85, 114, 199, 139, 141, 148
Korean War, 16, 34, 35, 36, 82-83, 108
Laird, Melvin, 156, 196, 200, 206
Lapp, Ralph, 33
Latter, Richard, 198
Launch on warning, 184-85, 232
Lawrence, Ernest O., 15, 17, 30, 39
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory/Livermore, 17, 18, 19, 22, 39,86,93,100,122
Legacy of Hiroshima, The (Teller), 32, 39
LeMay, General Curtis E., 53, 65
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 44, 45
Lindbergh, Charles A., 18, 86
Livermore Laboratory, see Lawrence Radiation Laboratory/ Livermore
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 16, 30, 32, 86, 93
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 57
LOX (liquid oxygen), 150
MacDonald, Gordon, 198
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Mace missile, 80
Manhattan Project, 28, 36
role in nuclear-arms race by, 29-32
Manned Orbiting Laboratory, see MOL
Martinelli, Ernest, 39
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19, 54,62,86
Matador missile, 80
McCarthy, Joseph, 142
McCloy, John J., 21,22
McCormack, General James, 86
McElroy, Neil H., 20,115,116, 118, 126, 139, 155, 214
McMahon, Brien, 37,221
McMillan, William, 198
McNamara, Robert S., 57, 58, 100,119,180, 196
ABM and, 194-95
Medaris, General John Bruce, 99, 101,105,138,139,141, 142
Medaris-Von Braun group, 134, 136
Meitner, Lise, 29
Mercury capsule, 132,151
Mike Event, 36, 40
Military-industrial complex, 9, 87
Military targets, 42-43,223-24
Millikan, Clark B., 18-19
Mills, Mark, 39
Minuteman missile, 45,102,201, 208
deployment of, 97, 152-53
kill probability of, 175
protection of, 183- 86, 197, 200, 203-4, 206, 210
purpose of, 84
range of, 98,160-61
test flight of, 57 111
version of, 153, 154
warhead of, 166, 181
MIRV, 156, 184, 187, 207, 231, 232, 242
comparison of Soviet and U.S., 180-83,199
effect on strategic situation by, 176-78, 179, 225-27
kill probability of, 175, 181
number of warheads, 45-47, 153, 154
Safeguard system and, 21 1
Missile gap, 11, 91,108,123, 125-46, 147
space programs stimulated by, 136 42, 145
weapons system stimulated by, 128-32, 134, 143
Missile-site radar, see MSR
Missiles accuracy of, 166-67, 173, 174-5
ballistic, 53, 75, 83,84, 86, 95, 126,127, 188, 231
cruise or air-breathing, 75, 80-81,188
development programs for, 83-1 02
land-based, 13, 45
launching of, 149-52, 154
launch on warning of, 184-87, 232
long-range, 40, 53, 57, 99, 126, 132
manned, 54, 120
multiple warheads for, 45, 46
reliability of, l 66 67, l 73-74
sea-based, 45
uses of, 75, 76
See also ICBM; IRBM; and specific names of missiles
MOL, 132, 156, 235, 242
Morse, Richard S., 141, 148
Moscow, Russia, 43, 46, 47
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MRV, 153, 156, 194, 242
MSR, 202, 242
Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, see MIRV
Multiple reentry vehicles, see MRV
NACA, 52, 112, 242
responsibilities of, 19
transformation to NASA of, 19, 115, 120, 136
Nagasaki, Japan, 16, 27-28, 30, 42
NASA, 127, 242
creation of, 144, 145
responsibilities of. l 9, 21 132, 136, 139
transferring of JPL to, 137, 138
transformation of NACA to, 19, 115, 120, 136
National Academy of Sciences, 104
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, see NACA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, see NASA
National security, 21
decline in, 228-30, 233
military means and, 23, 24
National Security Council, 64
National Space Council, 116
Navaho missile, 81, 83, 92, 235
Navy, U.S., 85, 133, 138, 236
joint committee with Army, 100, 101
missile and rocket programs of, 82, 100
nuclear-airplane involvement by, 61
satellite-launching responsibilities of, 104
NEPA, 61, 62, 243
Nike-Ajax missile, 188, 193
Nike-Hercules missile, 188, 190, 193
Nike-X, 194, 206
Nike-Zeus missile, 134, 153, 193 206
research and development of, 155, 176
Soviet ABM compared with, 201
testing of, 139-40
Nitze, Paul, 198
Nixon, Richard M., 10, 23, 56, 140, 149, 156, 195, 197
NORAD, 189, 243
North American Air Defense Command, see NORAD
North American Aviation, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59, 81
Rocketdyne Division of, 81, 83, 93
Nuclear airplane, 60-74
development of, 63-69
engine power for, 60 61
funding for, 61, 69
research for, 61-63
shielding problems of, 62-63, 68
Nuclear-arms race, see Arms race
Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft, see NEPA
Nuclear fission, discovery of process, 29
Nuclear-powered missile-launching submarine, see SSBN
Nuclear war authority over starting, 228, 231-33 types of control against, 233
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Nuclear weapons, 27-48
chemical bomb, compared with, 33-34
early testing of, 32
effect of Korean War and Russian A-bomb tests on, 34-35, 36
explosive yield of, 1950-70, 47-48
first use of, 27-28
Manhattan project and, 29-32
military targets of, 42-43
1950 stockpile of, 33-34
1960 stockpile of, 41-42, 43
overkill and, 42, 46, 48, 165, 230
qualitative improvements in, 44-45
radioactive fallout from, 43-44, 46
struggle for and against development of, 36-39
underground testing of, 44, 45
"virtual attrition," 46-47
See also A-bombs; H-bombs
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 15, 16, 30
OBS (orbital bombardment system), 143
Operation Castle, 40
Operation Crossroads, 32
Operation Greenhouse, 17
Operation Ivy, 40
Operation Paper Clip, 77, 129
Operation Sandstone, 32
Oppenheimer, Frank, 15
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 15, 30, 121, 205
H-bomb developent and, 36-39
Overkill, 46, 48, 165, 230
types of, 42
Packard, David, 196, 200
Panofsky, W. K. H., 198, 202, 222
PAR, 202, 243
Pastore, John O., 41
Perimeter acquisition radar, see PAR
Pickering, William, 137
Plutonium, 16, 30, 32
production of, 41
Polaris missile, 120, 133, 169, 202, 226
A-1 version, 153, 154, 241
A-2 version, 153, 154, 241
A-3 version, 153, 154, 177, 241
ABM and, 209, 211
capabilities of, 100-101
delay of, 90, 156
first deployment of, 101, 161
program acceleration of, 134
purpose of, 84
range of, 100, 161
Skybolt compared with, 129
Poseidon missile, 47, 154, 156, 175, 181, 182, 226
Power, General Thomas S., 152
Pratt and Whitney Corporation, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 80
President's Science Advisory Committee, see PSAC
Price, Melvin, 66, 69, 70
Project Defender, 118
Propulsion
ion and plasma, 128
thermonuclear, 128
PSAC. 119, 148, 149, 243
efforts toward arms control by, 19-20
establishment of, 113, 144
functions of, 114-I 6
Pugwash Conference, Sixth, 41
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Quarles, Donald, 18, 65, 66, 67,
84, 86, 115, 116, 137
Rabi, I. I., 114
Raborn, Admiral William F., 100, 101
Ramo, Simon, 86, 87
Ramo- Wooldridge Corporation, 86, 87, 88, 92, 93
Rathjens, George W., 197-98, 203, 204
Reaction Motors, Inc., 78
Redstone missile, 83, 105
Regulus I and II missiles, 82
Resor, Stanley, 196
Rickover, Admiral Hyman G., 163
Rigel missile, 82
Rockets, 75- 104, 109, 110
JATO, 78, 80, 242
liquid-propellant, 92, 95, 96, 97, 100, 101, 150, 151
long-range, 20, 83, 96
nuclear, 18
solid-propellant, 97, 98, 100, 151, 154
surface-to- surface, 82
types of motors for, 78-79
See also ICBM; IRBM; and specific names of rockets
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 29, 31
Rostow' Walt W., 149
Rubel, John, 119, 148
Ruina, Jack, 119, 140, 148, 197
Russell, Richard B., 70
Russia, see U.S.S.R.
SAC, 53, 65, 120, 127, 152, 190, 191, 233, 243
Safeguard system, 23, 183, 196, 197, 202, 213-15, 219, 226
SAGE, 155, 189, 206, 243
SAINT,131, 243
SAM, 191, 193, 206, 243
Sandria [sic; Sandia] Corporation, 84
Satellite booster system, 110-111
Satellite interception, see SAINT
Satellites, 104-S, 137, 1 S 1, 157, 162
cost of launching, 162-4
military, 127, 139
Saturn I, 136, 137, 139
Schmickrath, B. A., 68
Schriever, Brigadier General Bernard A., 18, 86, 87, 88, 118, 151
Science Advisory Committee, 10, 113
Scientists, 11, 12
H-bomb development and, 36-37
Scoville, Herbert, 115
Sea- (or submarine)-launched ballistic missile, see SLBM
Seaborg, Glenn T., 22, 222
Seitz, Frederick, 198
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, see SAGE
Senate Armed Services Committee, 112, 146, 156, 183, 202
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 21, 196
Sentinel system, 195-96, 202
Shelters, fallout and blast, 223-25
Shoults, D., 68
Shulman, Marshall, 198
Shute, Nevil, 44
Silos, 149-50
hardening of, 183
Sino-Soviet bloc, 16, 35, 48
Skybolt missile, 51, 123, 129, 130, 155, 235, 236
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SLBM, 84, 154, 243
SLV, 162, 243
Smith, Captain Levering, 101
SNAP, 121
Snark missile, 80, 81, 235
Space launch vehicle, See SLV
Space race, 108, 109, 110
Space Technology Laboratory, 138
Spartan interceptor, 202, 204
Special Assistant to the President for
Science and Technology establishment of, 113, 144
past and current, 194, 197
Sprint interceptor, 202, 204
Sputnik
Defense Department's reaction to, 112, 115, 116, 118, 126
launching of, 19, 52, 106
stimulus to U.S. programs by, 66, 113-24, 127, 130, 133-34, 144-46, 238
weight of I and 11, 108
SS-9, 166, 175, 199, 200, 204, 243
SS-11, 175, 183, 201, 243
SSBN, 154, 243
Stalin, Joseph, 16, 35, 107, 108
"Standoff'' weapons, 50-51
Starbird, Alfred D., 196
Stassen, Harold, 18
Strassmann, Fritz, 29
Strategic Air Command, see SAC
Strategic Stability, unbalancing of, 173-80
Strauss, Lewis L. 37,38,39
Street, Kenneth, 39
Surface-to-air missiles, see SAM
Symington, Stewart, 121
Szilard, Leo, 29,238
Technical Capabilities Panel, 113
Teller, Edward, 29, 32, 92, 122, 159, 198
desire to develope [sic] H-bomb by, 16-17, 36, 37, 39, 40
TFX, 58, 100, 156, 243
Thor missile, 97, 102, 236
Jupiter compared with, 98-100, 102-3
performance goats of, 94
purpose of, 84, 104
rocket engine powering, 8 I
Thor-Agena satellite launcher, 126, 135, 162
Titan missile, 45, 54, 166,187, 201
Atlas compared with, 102
design of, 95-96
development of, 94, 150-52
launching of capsules by, 132, 151
purpose of, 84
replacement of Atlas by, 96-97
warhead of, 47
TNT, 27, 33
Transit satellite, 134
Truman, Harry S, 38, 113
Twining, General Nathan F., 139, 142
U-2, 21, 107, 243
U 235, 27, 30, 32, 243
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, see U.S.S.R.
Urey, Harold C., 30
U.S.S.R., 12, 18
ABM of, 46, 176,179-80, 201
A-bomb testing by, 12, 16, 32, 34, 36
defense system, 190, 191
H-bomb testing by, 40-41
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U.S.S.R., continued
ICBM's of, 106, 109-11, 127, 147, 231
1970 strategic situation of, 165-68
role in arms race by, 228-30
U.S. missile and space programs compared, 108-12
U.S. reaction to scientific developments in, 69-74, 83, 106-8, 112-13
V-1 and V-2 missiles, 76-77, 78, 79, 89, 99, 181
Vanguard program, 20, 104, 108, 110, 133, 134
Vietnam War, 91, 146, 206, 220
Vinson, Carl, 55, 57
"Virtual attrition," 46-47
Von Braun, Wernher, 20, 77, 99, 101, 102, 105, 136, 137, 142
Von Neumann, John, 18, 19, 85, 92
Von Neumann Committee, 18, 85, 86, 87, 88, 92, 114, 238
Wakelin, Dr. James H., Jr., 147
Warhead
cluster, 153
thermonuclear, 129
WDD, 86, 88, 243
Weapons
development and deployment of strategic, 149, 225-27
limiting factors against new systems of. 160-65
See also Nuclear weapons
Weisner, Jerome B., 19, 22, 57, 165, 194, 197, 206
ANP views of, 69
PSAC chairmanship of, 119, 48-49
Von Neumann Committee involvement by, 85, 114
Weisskopf, Victor, 15
Western Development Division, see WDD
Wheeler, John A., 29
Whiting, Allen, 198
Wigner, Eugene, 29, 30, 46, 47
Wilcox, Howard. 119
Wilson, Charles E., 64, 101, 126, 134
Wohlstetter, Albert, 174, 183, 198
Wooldridge, Dean, 86, 87
World War II, 49, 60, 190, 228, 237
atomic bombs and, 28
start of, 15
strategic missiles fired during, 76-77
tons of explosives used in, 33
weapons development since, 49-50
WS-110, 52, 53
X-10, 30, 243
Y-12, 243
manufacturing plant of, 15, 30
Zablocki, Clement I., 196
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