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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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t. That winged, rocket-propelledbomb foreshadowed the shape of things tocome: supersonic aircraft, rockets and mis-siles that would make anti-aircraft artil-lery and searchlights as obsolete as a suitof armor. In 1945, the Army asked the Bell Tele-phone Laboratories to explore the possi-bilities of a new defense system usingproposed guided missiles. Later that sameyear, the Western Electric Company andthe Laboratories were given full respon- sibility for execution of Project Nike,named after the winged goddess of vic-tory in Greek mythology. PVom that be-ginning have grown the Nike systems ofdefense—one answer to the threat of waras it is today. Nike Ajax came first: an anti-aircraftmissile system employing radars, a com-puter, ground equipment and a super-sonic guided missile carrying a frag-mentation-type, high explosive warhead.Just ten years ago, Ajax became opera-tional with its first installation in Mary-land. Next was Nike Hercules, whoselarger missile was designed to carry a
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.s S. C. Donnelly, right, a key .production phase of Nike, with B. H. Terrellon radar tracking unit in Burlington, N.C.works. Family portrait of Ajax, above, and Hecules, center, (not operational set-i 23 Nike nuclear warhead capable of destroyingentire formations of aircraft. It hadgreater range and speed than Ajax. Thencame Improved Nike Hercules, utilizingmore powerful radars and having theadditional capability of destroying cruise-type and short-range tactical missiles. The search for a defense against inter-continental ballistic missiles travelingfaster than 15,000 miles per hour has ledto much developmental work on NikeZeus, now being reoriented toward theeven more sophisticated Nike-X. From the beginning, Bell TelephoneLaboratories has handled research anddevelopment and Western Electric hasserved as prime contractor in producingall these complex modern weapons of de-fense. On these and following pages areshown some pictorial highlights fromNikes first ten years of operation in

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