MISSILE MEN NEED WORK

What’s with General Lance Lord look­ing for “alter­na­tive uses” for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles? Has “the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War have actu­ally increased the impor­tance of our Minuteman III ICBM,” as he says? Or is the gen­eral just look­ing for some­thing to keep his 9,000 mis­ileers busy? The answer from Slate’s Fred Kaplan: # 2.
THERE’S MORE: While Gen. Lord tries to keep his cur­rent crop of mis­sile men engaged, the Pentagon is devel­op­ing a next gen­er­a­tion of hyper­sonic, inter­con­ti­nen­tal mis­siles. Here’s what I wrote about project Falcon (“Force Application and Launch from the CONtinental United States”) back in ’03.

April 21st, 2005 | Missiles | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.