Galaxy Magazine (August 1957) by Galaxy

Author:Galaxy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 1957-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

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By WILLY LEY

INCE ten to twelve weeks go by between the writing of this column and its appearance on the newsstands, I am going to make the cautious remark that the following observation may no longer be true by then. (But I doubt it.) The obser-

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vation is that most of the things I have been reading in the daily press about missiles during the last few months mostly dealt with missiles that don't yet exist. Or which are, at least, very much unfinished, if you consider the production contract the finish line.

There have been a good many articles about the Air Force's Project Atlas, aimed at creating a ballistic missile with a range of 5000 miles. There has been just as much discussion about the Thor missile, which is to have a range of between 1000 and 1500 miles.

Since this is now considered an "intermediate range," the Thor bears the designation IRBM. The Atlas is called the ICBM.

There have been other articles about a Navy project to create a ballistic missile that can be fired from a submarine without the need for surfacing.

If a newspaper reader, duly digesting and memorizing all this, should arrive at the conclusion that we apparently don't have much worth mentioning right now, he would, of course, be

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