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Pomeroy, Steven Anthony.

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Echoes that never were: American mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1956--1983.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Echoes that never were: American mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1956--1983./
Author:	Pomeroy, Steven Anthony.
Description:	317 p.
Notes:	Adviser: William F. Trimble.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3215735
ISBN:	9780542657559

Echoes that never were: American mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1956--1983.
Pomeroy, Steven Anthony.

Echoes that never were: American mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1956--1983. - 317 p.

Adviser: William F. Trimble.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2006.

Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, the missiles' dominant deployment mode became the stationary, hard, and dispersed underground launch facility; nonetheless, the air force, to a previously unrecognized extent, pursued mobile ICBMs as potential weapon systems. After concluding that its early Atlas and Titan missiles were unsatisfactory weapons for mobile operations, the service planned to deploy the smaller and more advanced Minuteman ICBM on trains. Following the mobile Minuteman's cancellation, the air force spent nearly a decade conducting detailed studies of mobile ICBM deployments, including air-, land-, and sea-mobile varieties. By the early 1970s, with the size of the American ICBM force limited to 1,054 missiles, the Soviet Union's ICBM force first achieved rough parity and then numerical superiority, raising questions about American land-based ICBM survivability. In response, the air force researched and developed a new mobile ICBM, the Missile-X, or MX for short, which became a program mired in controversy.

ISBN: 9780542657559Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

Echoes that never were: American mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1956--1983.
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