Abstract
Though Sputnik I was a shock to America, it also furnished the United States with the means to develop a technique that allowed the Polaris submarines to aim their nuclear missiles at Soviet cities with greater accuracy.
I don’t want any damn fool in this laboratory to save money, I only want him to save time.The final result is the only thing that counts, and the criterion is, does it work?
—Merle Tuve, speaking of the development of the proximity fuse as quoted by J.C. Boyce in New Weapons for Air Warfare.
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Gavaghan, H. (1998). Polaris and Transit. In: Something New Under the Sun. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1618-6_6
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