Bomarc

The Air Force’s land-based anti-Bomber Missiles

Explosive Power

7 to 10 kt.

Hiroshima Equivalent Factor

0.5x to 0.65x

Dimensions

45 feet x 35 inches

Weight

16,000 lbs.

Year(s)

1959–1972

Range

440 miles

Purpose

National defense against Soviet nuclear bombers

Nukemap

NUKEMAP is a web-based mapping program that attempts to give the user a sense of the destructive power of nuclear weapons. It was created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian specializing in nuclear weapons (see his book on nuclear secrecy and his blog on nuclear weapons). The screenshot below shows the NUKEMAP output for this particular weapon. Click on the map to customize settings.

Videos

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Wikipedia, Designation Systems
A brief history of the Bomarc by Bryan. R. Swopes, at This Day In Aviation.
The Armourer’s Bench always does a good job with their weapon overviews.
Military claims seems almost always inflated. The earlier Bomarc used liquid fuel and it was claimed that it could, after elevation, be fueled in two minutes prior to firing. This undated photo of a Bomarc being fueled appears to depict a process that will take far more than two minutes to perform.
Skytamer has their own outline of the Bomarc as well as a photo of one covered in snow at the Hill AFB, in Utah.
The Bomarc had the ability to be incorporated into the SAGE system which allows for automatic target acquisition and firing of the Bomarc from computers thousands of miles away.
One of the most serious nuclear accidents in US history occurred at McGuire AFB in 1960 when a Bomarc caught fire with its nuclear warhead attached. The warhead melted down and they poured concrete over it. Nothing to see, move along…(former sites may have a radioactivity problem, too, just from general use).
The Bomarc exploded, in a political sense, in Canadian politics, in the early 1960s. Do Canadians want nuclear weapons or not?
Another summary of the Bomarc, but this one has a picture of the Beau-Marks, a Canadian band named after the missile. Their songs are available to stream.
The Cold War offers no end of oddball subjects to write about. How about a hairstylist with a winning “Bomarc” style? An Air Force magazine described the hair-do thus:

This guided missile hairstyle was inspired by the supersonic Bomarc missile. It’s a swirl-a-wave which features supersonic action from nape to crown. From a siren list, it cruises to a froth of fluff swinging from cheek to tip of ear. The nuclear payload goes into super action and long-range swirls intercepted by flowing lines and high altitude sweeps cruising towards its target of pixie bangs on the brow.