Minuteman Missile
Historic Resource Study
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Section I — The Cold War and National Armament
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Chapter 2:
U.S. Strategic Missile and Armament
Systems (1950s—60s) (continued)
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Plate 5. Air Force Assistant Secretary
for Research and Development Trevor Gardner (left) and Major
General Bernard Schriever (right)—two champions in the
development of the ICBM (Courtesy U.S. Air Force, History
Division)
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Plate 6. Cutaway drawing of an Atlas D
ICBM. Later Atlas E and F missiles used the same airframe but added more
powerful engines (John C. Lonnquest and David F. Winkler, To Defend and
Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program
(Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense, Legacy Resource Management
Program, 1996), 210)
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Plate 7. Drawing of Titan I, the United
States' first two-stage ICBM (Lonnquest and Winkler, To Defend and
Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program,
228)
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Plate 8. Titan I missile with crew
(Photograph No. B-13-026-2, "Guided Missiles—Martin Titan," U.S.
Air Force Photo, Record Group 342, National Archives, College Park,
Md.)
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Last Updated: 19-Nov-2003
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