Search results for "Missile" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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) - 19:24, 24 May 2024
- 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
