No, the Snark missile’s name doesn’t mean what you might think at first. Northrop Corp. founder Jack Northrop took the name from the author Lewis Carroll’s mythical animal character “the Snark“ in his 1876 poem, “The Hunting of the Snark.” In October 1945, two months after deploying the atomic bomb in Japan, the United StatesContinue reading “Northrop develops the first intercontinental cruise missile, the Snark, in Hawthorne”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
