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Cold War missiles of the United States

  • LGM-30 MinutemanAir Force Colonel Edward N. Hall stood before a group of engineers in 1956 and declared that solid fuel could power an intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • PGM-19 JupiterIn 1954, the US Army asked Rocketdyne to build an engine with a thrust of 135,000 pounds. This request came as Wernher von Braun's team at Redstone Arsenal…