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PGM-17 Thor
Thor
was the first operational
ballistic missile
deployed by the
U.S. Air Force
(USAF). Named after the
Norse god of thunder
, it was deployed in the
United Kingdom
between 1959 and September 1963 as an
intermediate-range ballistic missile
(IRBM) with
thermonuclear warheads
. Thor was in height and in diameter. It was later augmented in the U.S. IRBM arsenal by the
Jupiter
.
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