I. Introduction -- II. The early years. Foreign efforts -- The Navy-Sperry flying bomb -- The Army-Kettering bug -- Foreign developments -- The Army-Sperry experiments -- US Navy efforts; the Kettering-General Motors, A-1 -- XBQ aircraft as aerial torpedoes -- APHRODITE: the aerial torpedo in action -- III. World War II. The German V-1 -- The American V-1 (JB-2) -- The Northrop JB-1/JB-10 -- IV. Postwar developments. Postwar adjustment -- Air Materiel Command BANSHEE -- Northrop snark -- North American Navaho -- The Martin Matador -- Navy programs -- Regulus I, Rigel, Regulus II, Triton -- The Crossbow -- The Hound Dog -- The Buck Duck -- The Bull Goose -- The Quail -- V. US cruise missiles revitalized. Advanced technology -- Remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) -- SCAD, SCAM, SCUD -- The Navy effort: general dynamics wins the SLCM contract -- ALCM -- VI. 1977 to the present. Cruise missiles and SALT -- The B-1 -- ALCM selection -- Cruise missile carrier -- Rationale for multiple cruise missile variants -- SLCM -- GLCM -- MRASM -- ALCM "C", ASALM, ATCM.