Poseidon and Polaris SLBM

Does anyone know if either Poseidon or Polaris were ever considered in any land based roles (be that fixed or possibly mobile)?
 
Here are several 1960s USN movies dealing with the Polaris:


Unfortunately it has no sound.



An excruciatingly detailed patent of the Polaris A1's guidance system
 

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Here's a 1985 BBC documentary about an RN Polaris submarine on patrol:


A similar 1960s USN documentary:

 
Here's a scan of some of the pages concerning wind-tunnel tests of the Polaris Mk-1 RV (I'd post the whole document but I can't remember its name) which include some detailed measurements of its dimension. The beryllium RV (Sans nose-cap and skirt) was also the structural component of the W-47's radiation-case.
 

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