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Any of the Golden Arrow concepts would be extremely expensive, and in the era of Robert McNamara's US Department of Defense, cost was as important as any other consideration.

As Alain Enthoven put it, " Our gross national product, though large, is limited.

If we attempted to develop and procure a dozen or more distinct different nuclear delivery systems … we doubtless would end up squandering our resources and not doing a good job on any of them.

" Golden Arrow, along with many similar proposals from other firms, proceeded no further, in favor of the Minuteman II.