RIM-2 Terrier was one component of Long Beach's missile battery. Terrier emerged from the US Navy's Project Bumblebee surface-to-air missile program. The heavy booster and missile again underline the physical scale of early guided weapons. Terrier could carry either a controlled-fragmentation warhead or a one-kiloton nuclear warhead, showing how routinely nuclear options entered Cold War air-defense design.
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Terrier, Project Bumblebee, and another nuclear option
The Terrier discussion traces Long Beach's shorter-range missile to Project Bumblebee and shows how nuclear warheads permeated early fleet air-defense planning.