SLBMs, short for Submarine Launched Ballistic ... The first ballistic missile used by the U.S. Navy was the Polaris (A1) ...

Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions—from missile-shaped ... In order to launch missiles on target ...

If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop it, these submarines would have been operating just off American shores.

The nuclear-powered boat proceeded to the U.S. Atlantic Missile Test Range with officials from the Polaris Submarine program, and on July 20, 1960, it completed the first Polaris missile launch ...

The missile that blasted ... its first from under water, the Polaris A3, latest addition to the nation’s undersea arsenal, promised that U.S. submarines would soon make their patrols with ...