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... world . . . .” ''(Sat. Review, 1/12/63, 46)'' USN launched its 16th Polaris -carrying submarine, ''Nathan Hale'', equipped to fire Polaris A3 now being developed. ''(AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 1/12/63)'' January ...

... , l/23/63)'' Rear Adm. Hugh Stirling MacKenzie was named by British Admiralty to direct Polaris project in Britain. Appointment was "first step in implementing the decisions reached by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan at Nassau" to make Polaris missiles available for Royal Navy. ''(AP, Wash. Eve. Star, l/23/63)'' January 1963 January ...

... NASA budget estimates for FY 1964. ''(Testimony)'' Construction was begun on Polaris Missile Facility-Pacific (PMF-PAC) at Bangor, Washington. ''(Polaris Chronology, 1955­-63)'' NASA $600,000 grant for "research in aerospace ...

... . ''(AP, Birmingham Post-Herald, 4/10/63)'' U.S.-U.K. agreement on purchase of Polaris missiles for use in British submarines was published in Washington. Contract was technical version of Nassau agreement signed last December by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan establishing Polaris as substitute for Skybolt weapon system. It was signed March 16 and submitted to British ...

... for distinguishing between under­ground nuclear tests and natural earthquakes. ''(AEC-DOD Release F-221)'' Polaris A-3 missile was launched from a submerged submarine for the first time. The submarine ... .S.S. Andrew Jackson was cruis­ing submerged about 30 miles off Cape Canaveral ; the Polaris flew successfully down the Atlantic Missile Range AMR . ''(DOD Release 1428-63)'' October 1963 October ...

... in London. U.S. was also estimated to have 1,300 strategic bombers and 10 Polaris submarines with 16 missiles each. U.S.S.R. was said to have 1,200 ... -1,000 of which were medium bombers of only 3,500 mi. range-and no Polaris -type submarines but 90 400-mi. missiles capable of being fired from a surfaced submarine ...

... .S. force now contains more than 500 operational long-range ballistic missiles- Atlas , Titan, Minuteman , Polaris --and is planned to increase to over 1,700 by 1966. There is no doubt ... submarine-launched bal­listic missiles are short range, and generally are not comparable to our Polaris force. The Soviets pose a very large threat against Europe, including hundreds of intermediate and ...

... addition, the Discoverer project took 13 at-tempts to recover its first payload from orbit. Polaris experienced 5 initial failures before its first success. Skybolt experienced 5 flights without achieving complete ... improve later flights. Although I believe Skybolt was dropped for other reasons, Atlas , Discoverer, and Polaris all went on to become vital elements in the defense posture of this country. "Ranger ...

... operational by 1975. ''(Houston Chron., 7/3/64)'' Final Polaris A-3 in test program was launched from Cape Kennedy . Advanced Polaris 2,500-mi- flight was 41st in program begun in ...

... tests, ''(AP, Wash. Post, 7/31/64)'' The nuclear submarine Daniel Boone test-fired a Polaris A-3 missile with a dummy warhead more than 2,000 mi. down the Eastern ... Florida coast. This marked the eighth success in nine undersea shots with the advanced-model Polaris. ''(UPI, Wash. Post, 7/31/64)'' July 1964 July Jul 1 1964 1 Jul 2 ...

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