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This article comments on the nomenclature of missiles developed by the U.S. Air Force and the Navy. Divine names of Greek mythology were appropriate for the new titans and yet these would offend nobody's religious feelings, for the Greek gods were long dead. For another theological rule governing the Greek pantheon is that one awakened god starts a chain reaction which wakes up all the rest in no time. A whisper in an American general's ear and another rocket came into being to glorify another deity: A whisper to a Soviet general, and a Communist counter-rocket moves the spiral of competition one spin higher.