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- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
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- The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at the then existing ... the sites protected by an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system to one. The ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- such as the Berlin Air Lift and the Cuban Missile Crisis, it is one of the ... pursuing Powers was caught and destroyed in the missile salvo. ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 01:20, 3 May 2023
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- responded to North Korea's ongoing missile and nuclear development ... information to North Korea in exchange for missile technology around 1997, ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- === Guided missile frigates === The development of the surface-to-air missile after the Second World ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 06:46, 15 April 2024
- and fired infrared homing air-to-air missile at it, hitting the engine ... site of the attack with a surface-to-air missile. Pakistani officials asserted ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- * K-13/R-3S missile (NATO reporting name AA-2 Atoll), a Soviet reverse ... * BGM-71_TOW Missile: In May 1975, negotiations between Iran and Hughes ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- designs. In 1917, he showed designs of a missile using liquid propellant ... payment negotiated by Lang for the actual missile launch was not forthcoming ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- On October 9, 2006, following the nuclear and missile tests, South ... such as a series of short range ship-to-ship missile tests. ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- started in 1967, when anti-ballistic missile defense became a key issue ... Freedom, in which anti-ballistic missile defense is featured as a ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- and encrypted their telemetry signals of missile tests. Telemetry was a vital source for the Soviets who would operate listening ships in Cardigan ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- [[Image:USS Michigan (SSBN-727).jpg|thumb|left|U.S. Navy ballistic ... servicing or repairing a fleet ballistic missile submarine. Another advantage ...11 KB (1,823 words) - 19:34, 3 August 2023
- anti-tank gun or sometimes an antitank guided missile launcher, or ATGM. Tank destroyers cannot fulfill the many roles of tanks; they are much ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- array radars were originally used for missile defense. They are the heart ... **Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) Systems **Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Cambridge, MA: ... *Trident missile (D5 Trident II) *F-15E Strike Eagle == Notes == ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 08:50, 29 July 2023
- in the development of the (wire) guided missile, or Anti-tank Guided Weapon ... with the Israelis fielding the Lahat missile that can be fired from the ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- and the unilateral cancellation of the Skybolt missile system by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Macmillan negotiated the delivering of American ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- Ocean. It supports the Vanguard class Trident missile nuclear ballistic missile submarines in a custom-built refitting dock. It houses the ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- It came out of work on the Minuteman Missile System. All the digital ... is also a consequence of another Minuteman Missile System requirement that ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- 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
- four large nuclear-powered Kirov class missile cruisers, two of which were ... the naval surface fire support gun and missile development programs achieve ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- in November 1967, involved a donated U.S. missile and U.S. support staff as ... com/blogs/science_news/4251430.html Navy Missile Successful as Spy Satellite ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- in response to the Soviet Union's missile superiority. However, he ... division within his own party and to anti-missile demonstrations. Schmidt ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- reasons. No evidence of a bomb, surface-to-air missile or hijacking has ever been presented. It has been speculated that the crew of the Douglas DC-6 ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- smaller ones that were shot from the mouth of a missile shaped like a dragon, and even fin–mounted winged rockets. The book described the use ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- States, Cuba was center stage during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. After the missile crisis cooled, Cuba under Castro exported communist revolution ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- where space was at a premium (such as missile guidance and telemetry systems). In 'cordwood' construction, two leaded components are ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 22:58, 30 November 2022
- Hod (Balder's blind brother) to fire the missile, which embedded itself in the joyful god's heart and killed him instantly. When Hod discovered ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- later most famously exacerbated by the Cuban Missile Crisis), control of Pravda allowed the government to explain negative events in a voice most favorable ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Support Program to signal detection of missile launches, nuclear detonations ... Arms Control Association, Missile Technology Control Regime. ...54 KB (8,113 words) - 20:37, 29 December 2023
- war nearly broke out during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. At the beginning ... === Cuban Missile Crisis === In October 1962 a major confrontation ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray in color, it is strong but brittle. ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- Sharif seemed genuinely surprised by the alleged missile movement, responding that India probably planned the same action. An article in May 2000, stating ...55 KB (8,309 words) - 08:36, 28 February 2023
- systems that combine antiaircraft guns with missile launchers are still the best way to defend against air attacks. Island nations, such as the ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- policy of strengthening the Soviet Union's missile forces at the expense of conventional arms. This policy antagonized the Soviet military establishment ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- test launch of the German V-2 ballistic missile on October 3, 1942, at Peenemünde in Germany. By September 1944, the V-2s routinely achieved ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 15:12, 27 April 2023
- Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (June 19, 1917 – July 1, 1999) was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union from the ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 07:40, 27 February 2023
- denouncing the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As one of the most prestigious and outspoken leftwing intellectuals, he also attracted opposition ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- thermal-imaging cameras, infrared homing missile guidance systems, and instruments for infrared astronomy. == Applications == The most important ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- " At 10:30, Wickson fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile at the trail helicopter from a range of about 4|nmi|km|-1. The missile hit and destroyed the ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- over there." During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mikoyan was sent to Cuba where he persuaded Castro to remove the nuclear missiles and bombers ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- such as during the 1960 U-2 incident and the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the aftermath of the U-2 Crisis Suslov was able to remove, and replace, several ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- and has active nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs. ... possibly including a hydrogen bomb and a missile capable of reaching the ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- as an air support platforms for guided missile cruisers and submarines ... * Nordeen, Lon. 1985. Air Warfare in the Missile Age, 2nd edition ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- *U.S. ballistic missile submarine USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628) *A Royal Navy gunboat built in 1814, and named HMS Tecumseth. It was laid up after the ...19 KB (2,963 words) - 04:39, 27 February 2023
- and one result of that was the German Wasserfall missile. By the late 1930s, several radio manufacturers offered remote controls for some of ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- Bush also pledged to expand the National Missile Defense initiative and to ... Criminal Court, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) with Russia ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 2023
- in the SALT I treaty) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- Pacific Fleet has used the Sea as a ballistic missile submarine bastion. ==Economy== The Sea of Okhotsk supports an incredible range of fish species ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- Clark National Historic Trail, the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, which features a decommissioned nuclear missile silo, and the Missouri ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
