SPRINT
Based on the threat by Soviet ICBMs and intelligence that Communist China could deploy ICBMs by the early 1970s, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered the U.S. Army to develop a deployment plan of its own, using existing SPRINT and SPARTAN interceptors.

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