Search results for "Missile" - New World Encyclopedia
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- to the Florida peninsula. The Cuban Missile Crises of 1962 was one of ... and wanted to invade. But after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it promised verbally ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- process equipment, nuclear reactors, and missile parts. Given its inertness ... process equipment, nuclear reactors, and missile parts. Tantalum wires and ...14 KB (1,813 words) - 03:03, 19 April 2023
- peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F ... Johnson administrations. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example, he ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- *Missile nose-cones; Shielding the missile internals from heat. *Space Shuttle tiles *Rocket Nozzles; Withstands and focuses the exhaust of ...14 KB (1,948 words) - 23:58, 3 December 2023
- A bomb is any of a range of devices that can be exploded to produce a sudden, violent release of energy. It typically relies on explosive material ...13 KB (2,042 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- to use a hovercraft, the Bora, as a guided missile corvette. The Finnish Navy designed an experimental missile attack hovercraft ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- One of the CIA's major successes came during the Cuban Missile ... on Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities that allowed ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- progress was complicated by North Korean missile tests in 1993, 1998, 2006 ... [[Image:North-Korea-missile-launch-in-20060705.png|thumb|right|250px ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis hurt the Soviet Union ... a plan to develop the Soviet Union's missile forces with a view to reduce ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- conventional wisdom was that the German missile program depended on the ... some of his innovations into their missile program, the V-2 superceded ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- * Missile * Oxygen * Rocket * Satellite * Space Shuttle == Notes == ==References == * Rogers, Lucy. 2008. It's Only Rocket Science: An Introduction ...24 KB (3,649 words) - 02:28, 16 December 2022
- A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft that obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within a rocket engine ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- (Sanskrit Divya: Enchanted + Astra: Missile Weapon). In the Mahabharata, Lord Krishna, in his youth, goes to the ashram of Sage Sandiipanii, ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- * Combined in alloys, it is essential for airplane and missile construction. * It is an additive agent for conventional propellants and used in ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- moved to deploy cruise missiles and the Pershing II missile in Europe. All this contributed to international tension. It was a Time Magazine article ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- * An American Pershing missile and a Soviet SS-20 missile ===Other selected exhibits=== * The original Wright Flyer that made the first controlled ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- as well. After World War II, the advent of the missile delivered both great range and accuracy and provided infantry with a weapon that could reliably ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- North Korea has a very active missile development program, although ... Hwasong-15, an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking anywhere ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- of Pigs Invasion and the subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1964, after his ... the strategy to avert war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Due to his far-sightedness ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (formerly ... Due to the U.S. Army's continued use of the atoll for various ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- came on October 25, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Stevenson gave a ... During the First Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis." Illinois Historical ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- the Monroe Doctrine played a part in the Cuban missile crisis (1962), a confrontation with the USSR over Soviet missile bases established in Cuba. ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- the war that he also flew missions as an Exocet missile decoy. ... with the latest version of the Sidewinder missile, supplied to us by U.S. ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Morita was assigned to the development of a new missile at the Air Armory at Yokosuka. There he met Ibuka Masaru, an engineering genius known for inventing ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- torpedoes and steering gear, while the missile launch system is located ... hunter-killer role, or strategic ballistic-missile submarines, designed to ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- This was first done at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with a V-2 rocket in 1949. X-rays from the Sun were detected by the Navy's ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 14:15, 20 May 2023
- such as mishandling the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and disorganizing ... missiles in Cuba, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- need for remote or automatic control as in a guided missile. The attack scenario also has the advantage of not requiring a plan on escaping to safety ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- the AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missile from the Soviet Union and ... obtain the material for an anti-aircraft missile defense wall after visiting ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- #039;s effort to develop a ballistic missile during World War II, and ... rockets, better known as the V-2 ballistic missile, and the supersonic Wasserfall ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of ... Cuba, and whether the Soviet space and missile programs had surpassed those ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- Days of Decision" and support for the Bomarc missile program. Pearson never had a majority in the Canadian House of Commons, but he introduced ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- but CIS countries continue to employ gun-missile systems in their main battle ... Today, tanks are vulnerable to specialized top-attack missile weapons ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- the ice cap without damage, thus enabling a missile launch from a submarine under the Arctic ice cap. == See also == * Chemical element ...12 KB (1,615 words) - 17:06, 25 January 2023
- U.S. authorize sending a shipment of small missile parts to Iranian military ... participation in the November 1985 Hawk missile shipment to Iran. US Attorney ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- The terms space debris, space junk, orbital debris, and space waste refer to human-made objects in space that no longer serve any useful purpose ...13 KB (1,862 words) - 15:16, 27 April 2023
- Greek βολις (bolis), which can mean "a missile" or "to flash." The International Astronomical Union has no official definition ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- made small enough to fit in the nose of a missile as in an ICBM. In his book ... expressed opposition to the antiballistic missile (ABM) because it would damage ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- 3000°C) materials, used in reentry shields for missile nosecones, solid rocket engines, pebble bed reactors, brake shoes, electric motor brushes, and ...13 KB (1,840 words) - 19:59, 19 September 2021
- that confirmed American superiority in both missile numbers and technology, but the president worried that publicizing the data would lead to the ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- newsletter for the BOMARC surface-to-air missile deployed by the U.S. Air ... reviews addressing subjects as diverse as missile security, the Watts Riots ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most ... 1952—until the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- National Historic Site, Marin Headlands, Nike Missile Site, and the Presidio of San Francisco. It protects 554 acres (2.24 km²) of forested area populated ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- targets throughout Iraq and Kuwait: SCUD missile launchers, weapons of mass ... ===Iraq launches missile strikes=== Iraq launched missile attacks on ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- American Activities Committee and the Cuban missile crisis; and she wrote What Use Are Flowers, a play about life after an atomic war. In 1964, the SNCC ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 02:44, 4 November 2022
- projects, and vice-versa. Both the Minuteman missile and Apollo program needed lightweight digital computers for their inertially-guided flight computers; ...29 KB (4,001 words) - 06:15, 6 March 2024
- when they entered the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where nose cones for the Mark 12A warheads ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
- of China, notably the Silkworm anti-ship missile. Iran acquired weapons and ... Gazelle attack helicopter and the Exocet anti-ship missile. ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- alloys are used for oil pipelines, aircraft and missile parts, and filaments. Special alloys (such as the Hastelloys) are notably heat-resistant and ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 19:51, 9 November 2022
- credited for his role in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis and for ending the civil war in the Congo. Although he didn't seek it, Thant was ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
