Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1961 — Page 8

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Missile Program Fast Developing

By JACK V. FOX United Press International CHEYENNE, Wyo. (UPI) — On a windy mesa north of here, ■ range country desolate as great parts of the world will be if the “Birds” ever start flying, sprawls one of America’s operational missile sites. ■ .- ■ -—- — Inside thick concrete huts the gleaming stainless steel Atlas missiles rest on their sides, the nuclear warheads screwed in place. . < News Item! I Americans ate $lB billion of food away from home ' last year, more than they 1 spent for new automo- !' biles. i, (Fairway Restaurant) j

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I If your security" clearance is I sufficient — and if you have the (desire — you can reach up and pat the warhead- It is far more potent than the bomb which killed . 78,000 at Hiroshima. A couple hundred yards away, in another concrete bunker, an Air Force captain and a lieutenant, pistols strapped to their i waists, sit behind panels where : the pressing of a grey “start” 1 button can send these monsters ; on a half-hour, 6,000-mile trip into enemy territory. At this base they are ready, : day and night, to start shooting from six pads. Won’t Know Targets If war with Soviet Russia ever (comes and that button is pressed, the handful of soldiers at Warren Air Force Missile Squadron No. 1 will not- know what targets they shot at. And they probably would never find out if they hit. For this lonely outpost would be a prime target of Communist rockets.

It is a fearsome duty. The missilemen have, as their sole professional reason for being, a job they hope to God they never have to do. The deadly seriousness of a “missile gap” strikes home after a visit to this base. A year ago it was still in construction. The only intercontinental balistics missiles in operational readiness were three Atlas rockets standing in vulnerable exposure in gantries along the Pacific at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Khrushchev Passes Site Khrushchev passed them less than a quarter-mile distant in his train trip up the West Coast in 1959. He may have been amused, because his Soviet Union had far more. What Russia did not have was the enormous nuclear bomber force of the Strategic Air Command. And not., having such a force, Russia had pushed with tremendous emphasis on missies until the peril to America became evident to even the most dense. Since that time, just a year ago, U.S. missile sites have begun- to sprout across the entire western half of the continent. Besides the six pads at this base, there are nine at Warren II now operational. Nine more were turned over to SAC less than

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three weeks ago around Omaha. There are at least three new Atlas pads at Vandenberg. . So today the United States has at least 30 operational missile launching pads where a year ago it had three. Network Grows But this is only the tiniest beginning. The Air Force is building a missile network so staggering in size and cost that it dwarfs any previous military crash program in history. All but one of the 14 Atlas complexes will be west of the Mississippi. They will be in California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Washington, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and New York. They must be widely dispersed. One single complex nearing completion embraces an area bigger than Connecticut. At the same time, another gigantic program is underway on Titan — the second liquid-fuel missile capable of hitting Russia. And just getting underway is the biggest program of al*— the cheaper, smaller, solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM. Each of its pads , requires less than an acre of ! ground but it will be sprinkled over the nation down in silos. j It is estimated that by 1965 the i United States may have 1,300 t missile sites. , By then the missile gap —if it exists — may have disappeared.

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But will Russia wait for that? That is why the next few years are so critical. Only For War One startling fact is that none of these missiles will ever be fired in test. The one and only time they will go into flight .will be the day World War 111 begins. The only exceptions are the test facilities at Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral. The commanding SAC officer at Warren No. 1 is Col. Julius Pickoff, a big ruddy-faced Texan with a soft voice and ever-present cigar. “It’s such an impersonal business,” says Pickoff. “It introduces a morale factor.” There is constant testing and maintenance and training. And regularly a crew is picked at random to go with its Atlas to Van-

denberg for an actual firing. But boredom is there just the same. There are 12 men in a launch crew. All have undergone the severest security scrutiny into their loyalty and background. They rotate on assignments, spending 12 hours at the missile site and 24

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back at the Air Force base. If hostilities begin, the word to fire will come from Washington to SAC headquarters in Omaha and thence by duplicated communications to this base. Included will be a coded message in numbers.