The missile that blasted out of the clear blue ... By passing its 13th successive successful test, its first from under water, the Polaris A3, latest addition to the nation’s undersea arsenal ...

Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions—from missile-shaped cigars to cigar-shaped missiles—had been stored.

Each of these vessels was fitted with the UGM-27 Polaris missile, a solid-fueled, nuclear-armed weapon designed originally for the U.S. Navy. Since the Polaris was launched underwater from a ...

Although the missile was exceedingly large, at least one scheme proposed mounting four V-2s in a submarine. Timely development of the Polaris missile, which permitted 16 on a boat, precluded any ...

The Americans developed the submarine-launched Polaris nuclear missile system but needed a base for their fleet in Europe. The USA and Britain struck a deal which brought the missiles to the Clyde ...