1958 ... Regulus II


4 comments:

1950s Atomic Ranch House said...

Fantastic!

Love the atomic ads/images.

Dad worked on Top Secret nuclear/atomic sub stuff. It was so Top Secret, I never once got to see his office in the high-security place he worked at!

Sharon Day said...

Yeah, that's ingenuity...of a kind. Chilling, huh? They make it seem rather sexy.

Pat Flannery said...

With a length of 57.5 feet, those must be two pretty short city buses they are comparing it to. ;-)
Although you can't see the number on its sail, that appears to be the SSGN Halibut that's launching it.
The bow hanger for the missile was later turned into a workspace for intelligence gathering operations with UUVs, and it was Halibut that found the sunk "Golf" class Soviet missile submarine that the CIA tried to raise using the Glomar Explorer.

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Atomic rocket age