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In d e x 151 Sidewinder missile, 9, 49, 49n40, 66 Signal Corps. See Army Signal Corps. Skate submarine, 64 Skipjack submarine, 64 Solid-state electronics, 2, 23, 53, 67, 71 Solid-state physics, 14, 23, 26, 110 Sonar, 44, 58–60, 62 Special Projects Office, 54, 65, 112 Special Weapons Center AEC testing functions and, 87–88 atomic and nonnuclear weapons testing, 9, 82 environmental impact studies, 98 establishment, 87 expansion, 87 geophysics research, 102, 102n99 laser weapons, 98–99 nuclear weapons testing, 71–72, 87–88 particle accelerator research, 99 R&D expenditures for 1951, 87 Weapons Laboratory, 98–99 Springfield Armory, Mass. closure, 8, 20–21, 33 contributions of industrial research and, 14 establishment, 11 failure to develop replacement for M1 rifle, 35, 35n64 functions, 11 metallurgical research, 14 Sputnik, 93, 94, 96 Stever, H. Guyford, 94–95 Stever Committee Report, 94–95 Strassman, Fritz, 62 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 98 Submarine rocket (SUBROC), 44, 45 SUBROC. See Submarine rocket. Superconductivity, 15, 33 Terrier missile system, 53 TF33 jet engine, 96 Thor missile, 89 Titanium, 27, 56–57, 57n64 Toward New Horizons (Scientific Advisory Group), 76–77 Transportation Corps, 12n4 Trident missile, 53 Underwater Sound Laboratory, 42n14, 58, 59, 65 United Aircraft Corporation, Pratt and Whitney Division, 96–97 University of Illinois, 29, 78
152 so u R c e s o f we a p o n sy s T e m s In n o v a T Io n In T h e depaR TmenT o f defense University of Pennsylvania, 25–26, 26n43, 28n46 Uranium, 62–63 Vandenberg, General Hoyt, 78–79 Von Kármán, Theodore AEDC and, 85 recommends separating R&D from production, 77–78, 109 Science, The Key to Air Supremacy, 76, 78 and Scientific Advisory Group, 77 Toward New Horizons study, 76–77 Vulcan Gatling cannon, 87 WADC. See Wright Air Development Center. WADD. See Wright Air Development Division. War Department, 11, 17, 68, 73 War Department General Staff, 17, 72 War Production Board, 3 Watertown Arsenal, Mass. closure, 8, 21, 33–34 contributions of industrial research and, 14 establishment, 11, 24 functions, 11 Materials Research Laboratory, 28 metallurgical research, 14, 24, 28, 34 operating division, 24n38 Watervliet Arsenal, N.Y. autofrettage research, 32–33 establishment, 11 functions, 11, 33 metallurgical research, 32 organizational realignment, 32 prototype weapon-systems research, 31–32 Research and Engineering Division, 32 solid-state physics research, 32 staffing issues, 20n28, 32 superconductivity research, 15, 33 Watson Laboratories, 91, 91n70, 92 WDD. See Western Development Division. Weapon-system concept, 70, 70n9, 72, 82–83, 84n48, 100 Western Development Division (WDD), 89, 107, 112 Westinghouse Electric, 25–26, 26n43, 56, 62–63, 90n69 White, General Thomas, 94–95 Wind tunnels, 75, 82, 85n53, 86, 96 Wolfe, Lt. Gen. Kenneth, 78, 109–10 World War I, 12, 43, 51, 68, 73, 101 World War II aircraft industry expansion, 74
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