The first Atlas ICBM's are now operational, the first two Polaris submarines are expected to be operational this calendar year, and the first Titan ICBM's next year.

In the coming fiscal year additional quantities of Atlas, Titan, and Polaris missiles also will be procured.

Survivability of our strategic forces ( Polaris, mobile and hardened Minuteman, hardened Atlas and Titan, and airborne Skybolt ) means that it will take some time, perhaps weeks, to destroy a strategic force.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

** Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Titan, " Atlas "

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

Other Autocodes were developed for the Titan ( computer ) ( a prototype Atlas 2 ) at Cambridge and the Ferranti Mercury.

In the mid-1960s, a successor to the EDSAC 2 was planned, but the move was instead made to the Titan, a prototype Atlas 2 — the latter having been developed from the Atlas Computer of the University of Manchester, Ferranti, and Plessey.

1965 graph of USAF Atlas and Titan ICBM launches, cumulative by month with failures highlighted ( pink ).

Examples include R-7, Atlas, Redstone, Titan, and Proton, which was derived from the earlier ICBMs but never deployed as an ICBM.

The missiles of the day were all required to be loaded with their fuels prior to launch ( they all used nonstorable propellants ); and they could only be launched from above ground ( after long pre-launch checkouts ) launch pads, making them vulnerable to attack-the first ICBMs, Atlas 1 and Titan 1 were of this type.

* Titan ( computer ), prototype Atlas 2 computer developed in the early 1960s

Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

In 1983 it was officially named after Atlas of Greek mythology, because it " holds the rings on its shoulders " like the Titan Atlas held the sky up above the Earth.

In Greek mythology, Atlas (; ) was the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere.

Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klyménē ( Κλυμένη ):

In contexts where a Titan and a Titaness are assigned each of the seven planetary powers, Atlas is paired with Phoebe and governs the moon.

The first publisher to associate the Titan Atlas with a group of maps was Lafreri, on the title-page to " Tavole Moderne Di Geografia De La Maggior Parte Del Mondo Di Diversi Autori ...".

The term atlantes is the Latin plural of the name Atlas – the Titan who was forced to hold the sky on his shoulders for eternity.

Asia in Greek mythology was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.

Six fascicles ( 10,000 copies each ) of the `` Atlas Of Tumor Pathology '' were completed during the period of this report.

In this same period, six new fascicles of the Atlas Of Tumor Pathology were published and distributed to medical centers world-wide.

Other Flexowriter characters that were found a use in Atlas Autocode were: in floating-point numbers, e. g. for modern ; to mean " the second half of an Atlas memory word "; for the mathematical pi number.

However, the Californian, North African ( Atlas bear ), and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the 1870s, 1922, and more recently, respectively, and the not officially recognized Marsican brown bear in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears.

The Atlas D rocket required extra strengthening in order to handle the increased weight of the Mercury spacecraft beyond that of the nuclear warheads they were designed to carry.

*** Pleiades ( daughters of Atlas and Pleione ; constellation ; also were classed as Oreads )

While Hamilcar was able to obtain the resources for his aim, the Numidians in the Atlas Mountains were not conquered, like Hanno suggested, but became vassals of Carthage.

According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, of 1, 231 societies noted, 186 were monogamous.

The Peloton procurements in late 2006 ( Atlas and other computers ) were the first in which a commercial resource management package, Moab, was used to manage the clusters.

In 1729 his wife published his Atlas Coelestis, assisted by Joseph Crosthwait and Abraham Sharp, who were responsible for the technical side.

When the Titans were defeated, many of them ( including Menoetius ) were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of Gaia ( the Earth ) and hold up Uranus ( the Sky ) on his shoulders, to prevent the two from resuming their primordial embrace.

Most of the rocks forming the surface of the present High Atlas were deposited under the ocean at that time.

Finally, in the Tertiary Period (~ 65 million to ~ 1. 8 million years ago ), the mountain chains that today comprise the Atlas were uplifted as the land masses of Europe and Africa collided at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula.

Together he and his father were the probable authors of the famous Catalan Atlas of 1375.

As daughters of Atlas, the Hyades were sisters of the Pleiades.

The Duchy of Naxos and states of Morea, carved from the Byzantine Empire, as they were in 1265 ( William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1911 )

The early 68000-based Adobe PostScript interpreters and their hardware were named for cold war U. S. rockets and missiles: Atlas, Redstone, etc.

A series of expansions for both the GURPS version and boardgame, the AADA Road Atlas and Survival Guides, were published in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

This anticipated market demand did not materialize, but both the Delta IV and Atlas V EELVs remain in active service.

Even before delivery of the Atlas, the Navy asked for a more powerful machine using both Williams tubes and drum memory, a machine known as the Atlas II.

" Charlie " Bossart ( the man behind the Atlas ICBM ) and Dr. Krafft A. Ehricke, both Convair employees.

According to other accounts, either he or Athena used the head to turn Atlas into stone, transforming him into the Atlas Mountains that held up both heaven and earth.

The initial mission of Cooke AFB was to serve both as a training site for the PGM-17 Thor, SM-65 Atlas, and HGM-25A Titan I missiles, and as an emergency operational facility for Atlas ICBM.

Braathens bought strategic ownerships in both Saga Tours and Sweden's Atlas Resor to secure their part of the charter market.

* In Atlas Shrugged there is a government bureaucrat and industrial spy named Tony, who is often referred to by both Henry Rearden and the narrations as " the wet nurse " for taking on the paternalistic role of the state at Rearden Steel.

The Atlas also had a short military career as a deterrent weapon, but the Atlas rocket family descended from it became an important orbital launcher for many decades, both for the Project Mercury manned spacecraft, and in the much-employed Atlas-Agena and Atlas-Centaur rockets.

The Barrington Atlas shows the Iazyges occupying both sides of Tisza ( map 20 ).

Ptolemy ( 140 AD ) lists only Germanic or Balto-Slavic tribes, and no Dacians, on both sides of the Vistula ( ref: II. 10 ; III. 7 ), as does the Barrington Atlas ( map 19 )

Roth and the two attackers were tried separately, with Judge Jeffrey Atlas presiding over both trials.

This anticipated market demand did not materialize, but both the Delta IV and Atlas V EELVs remain in active service.

Atlas II provided higher performance than the earlier Atlas I by using engines with greater thrust and longer fuel tanks for both stages.

Using the prospect of his release to make Atlas stop the other Thunderbolts interfering, Zemo bested Genis in battle and, apologizing for both his mistake and the necessary solution, sliced Genis ' body into pieces and scattered them through both time and the Darkforce dimension to prevent Genis returning from the dead a third time.

The fight between the Thunderbolts and the Agents of Atlas rages on as the deadly chemicals causes both teams to retreat.

It is listed in both the Guinness Book of World Records and the Eighth Edition of the National Geographic Atlas as the windiest place on Earth with winds regularly exceeding per hour and an average annual wind speed of per hour.

Garmin had been expected to counterbid once again: with Tele Atlas ' main global rival Navteq subject to a takeover bid from Nokia, the company had stated that it did not wish both companies to fall into the hands of rivals.