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Polaris|pəʊˈlɑːrɪs|
[a. med.L. polāris polar.]
The name of a type of guided missile developed for the U.S. Navy, having a nuclear warhead and designed to be carried by submarines and launched under water. Freq. attrib. and Comb., as Polaris missile, Polaris submarine; Polaris-carrying adj.
1957N.Y. Times 1 Jan. 1/3 The Navy is developing a ballistic missile to be fired from submerged submarines at targets hundreds of miles away, it was disclosed today. The missile is named the Polaris. 1957Life 21 Jan. 121/2 Although Polaris can be launched from surface ships it will find its greatest strategic value with fast new nuclear⁓powered submarines. 1958Observer 10 Aug. 3/4 Submarines of the Nautilus type equipped with ‘Polaris’ guided missiles could clearly use the Arctic Ocean as a base from which to threaten, with virtual impunity, the northern coasts of Russia. 1958New Statesman 16 Aug. 181/1 They will be equipped with the deadly Polaris missile. 1960Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 1/3 Britain has sounded the United States Defence Department on the possibility of having her own Polaris-carrying submarines, it was learned to-day. 1965New Statesman 14 May 752/1 Last October, The Times felt able to predict with confidence that all Labour would do with Polaris would be to assign it irrevocably to Nato. 1965H. Kahn On Escalation ii. 48 One can conceive of a slow-motion counterforce war lasting for weeks or months during which Polaris submarines are hunted down. 1973D. Kyle Raft of Swords (1974) iii. 18 The Americans developed their Polaris programme very quickly... The Polaris rocket went from design to deployment in one and a half years. |