The first ballistic missile used by the U.S. Navy was the Polaris (A1) missile. It could only carry one nuclear warhead and had a fraction of the range that the Trident II has; 1,200 nautical miles.

The Polaris missile was the United States Navy's first submarine-launched ballistic missile. Serving from 1960 to 1980, ... capabilities. On November 16, 1963, President John F. Kennedy aboard the USS ...

Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions—from missile-shaped cigars to cigar-shaped missiles—had been stored.

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 Yankee-Class Submarine’s Specs . The Yankee-class submarines were developed in response to the United States’ deployment of the Polaris missile submarines, such as the George Washington ...

The first ballistic missile used by the U.S. Navy was the Polaris (A1) missile. It could only carry one nuclear warhead and had a fraction of the range that the Trident II has; 1,200 nautical miles.