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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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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 ...
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  • responded to North Korea's ongoing missile and nuclear development ... information to North Korea in exchange for missile technology around 1997, ...
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  • === Guided missile frigates === The development of the surface-to-air missile after the Second World ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * 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 ...
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  • designs. In 1917, he showed designs of a missile using liquid propellant ... payment negotiated by Lang for the actual missile launch was not forthcoming ...
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  • On October 9, 2006, following the nuclear and missile tests, South ... such as a series of short range ship-to-ship missile tests. ...
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  • started in 1967, when anti-ballistic missile defense became a key issue ... Freedom, in which anti-ballistic missile defense is featured as a ...
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  • and encrypted their telemetry signals of missile tests. Telemetry was a vital source for the Soviets who would operate listening ships in Cardigan ...
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  • [[Image:USS Michigan (SSBN-727).jpg|thumb|left|U.S. Navy ballistic ... servicing or repairing a fleet ballistic missile submarine. Another advantage ...
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  • anti-tank gun or sometimes an antitank guided missile launcher, or ATGM. Tank destroyers cannot fulfill the many roles of tanks; they are much ...
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  • array radars were originally used for missile defense. They are the heart ... **Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) Systems **Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA ...
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  • A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Cambridge, MA: ... *Trident missile (D5 Trident II) *F-15E Strike Eagle == Notes == ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and the unilateral cancellation of the Skybolt missile system by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Macmillan negotiated the delivering of American ...
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  • Ocean. It supports the Vanguard class Trident missile nuclear ballistic missile submarines in a custom-built refitting dock. It houses the ...
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  • It came out of work on the Minuteman Missile System. All the digital ... is also a consequence of another Minuteman Missile System requirement that ...
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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 ...
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  • process equipment, nuclear reactors, and missile parts. Given its inertness ... process equipment, nuclear reactors, and missile parts. Tantalum wires and ...
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  • peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F ... Johnson administrations. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example, he ...
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  • *Missile nose-cones; Shielding the missile internals from heat. *Space Shuttle tiles *Rocket Nozzles; Withstands and focuses the exhaust of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • to use a hovercraft, the Bora, as a guided missile corvette. The Finnish Navy designed an experimental missile attack hovercraft ...
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  • One of the CIA's major successes came during the Cuban Missile ... on Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities that allowed ...
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  • progress was complicated by North Korean missile tests in 1993, 1998, 2006 ... [[Image:North-Korea-missile-launch-in-20060705.png|thumb|right|250px ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • conventional wisdom was that the German missile program depended on the ... some of his innovations into their missile program, the V-2 superceded ...
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  • * Missile * Oxygen * Rocket * Satellite * Space Shuttle == Notes == ==References == * Rogers, Lucy. 2008. It's Only Rocket Science: An Introduction ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • (Sanskrit Divya: Enchanted + Astra: Missile Weapon). In the Mahabharata, Lord Krishna, in his youth, goes to the ashram of Sage Sandiipanii, ...
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  • * Combined in alloys, it is essential for airplane and missile construction. * It is an additive agent for conventional propellants and used in ...
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  • moved to deploy cruise missiles and the Pershing II missile in Europe. All this contributed to international tension. It was a Time Magazine article ...
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  • * An American Pershing missile and a Soviet SS-20 missile ===Other selected exhibits=== * The original Wright Flyer that made the first controlled ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • North Korea has a very active missile development program, although ... Hwasong-15, an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking anywhere ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • came on October 25, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Stevenson gave a ... During the First Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis." Illinois Historical ...
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  • the Monroe Doctrine played a part in the Cuban missile crisis (1962), a confrontation with the USSR over Soviet missile bases established in Cuba. ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • torpedoes and steering gear, while the missile launch system is located ... hunter-killer role, or strategic ballistic-missile submarines, designed to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • such as mishandling the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and disorganizing ... missiles in Cuba, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • #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 ...
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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 ...
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  • Days of Decision" and support for the Bomarc missile program. Pearson never had a majority in the Canadian House of Commons, but he introduced ...
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  • but CIS countries continue to employ gun-missile systems in their main battle ... Today, tanks are vulnerable to specialized top-attack missile weapons ...
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  • the ice cap without damage, thus enabling a missile launch from a submarine under the Arctic ice cap. == See also == * Chemical element ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Greek βολις (bolis), which can mean "a missile" or "to flash." The International Astronomical Union has no official definition ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 3000°C) materials, used in reentry shields for missile nosecones, solid rocket engines, pebble bed reactors, brake shoes, electric motor brushes, and ...
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  • that confirmed American superiority in both missile numbers and technology, but the president worried that publicizing the data would lead to the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most ... 1952—until the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • targets throughout Iraq and Kuwait: SCUD missile launchers, weapons of mass ... ===Iraq launches missile strikes=== Iraq launched missile attacks on ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • projects, and vice-versa. Both the Minuteman missile and Apollo program needed lightweight digital computers for their inertially-guided flight computers; ...
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  • when they entered the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where nose cones for the Mark 12A warheads ...
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  • of China, notably the Silkworm anti-ship missile. Iran acquired weapons and ... Gazelle attack helicopter and the Exocet anti-ship missile. ...
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  • alloys are used for oil pipelines, aircraft and missile parts, and filaments. Special alloys (such as the Hastelloys) are notably heat-resistant and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • four large nuclear-powered Kirov class missile cruisers, two of which were ... the naval surface fire support gun and missile development programs achieve ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in response to the Soviet Union's missile superiority. However, he ... division within his own party and to anti-missile demonstrations. Schmidt ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • States, Cuba was center stage during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. After the missile crisis cooled, Cuba under Castro exported communist revolution ...
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  • where space was at a premium (such as missile guidance and telemetry systems). In 'cordwood' construction, two leaded components are ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • later most famously exacerbated by the Cuban Missile Crisis), control of Pravda allowed the government to explain negative events in a voice most favorable ...
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  • Support Program to signal detection of missile launches, nuclear detonations ... Arms Control Association, Missile Technology Control Regime. ...
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  • war nearly broke out during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. At the beginning ... === Cuban Missile Crisis === In October 1962 a major confrontation ...
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  • Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray in color, it is strong but brittle. ...
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  • Sharif seemed genuinely surprised by the alleged missile movement, responding that India probably planned the same action. An article in May 2000, stating ...
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  • systems that combine antiaircraft guns with missile launchers are still the best way to defend against air attacks. Island nations, such as the ...
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  • policy of strengthening the Soviet Union's missile forces at the expense of conventional arms. This policy antagonized the Soviet military establishment ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (June 19, 1917 – July 1, 1999) was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union from the ...
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  • denouncing the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As one of the most prestigious and outspoken leftwing intellectuals, he also attracted opposition ...
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  • thermal-imaging cameras, infrared homing missile guidance systems, and instruments for infrared astronomy. == Applications == The most important ...
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  • " 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 ...
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  • over there." During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mikoyan was sent to Cuba where he persuaded Castro to remove the nuclear missiles and bombers ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and has active nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs. ... possibly including a hydrogen bomb and a missile capable of reaching the ...
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  • as an air support platforms for guided missile cruisers and submarines ... * Nordeen, Lon. 1985. Air Warfare in the Missile Age, 2nd edition ...
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  • *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 ...
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  • and one result of that was the German Wasserfall missile. By the late 1930s, several radio manufacturers offered remote controls for some of ...
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  • Bush also pledged to expand the National Missile Defense initiative and to ... Criminal Court, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) with Russia ...
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  • in the SALT I treaty) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...
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  • Pacific Fleet has used the Sea as a ballistic missile submarine bastion. ==Economy== The Sea of Okhotsk supports an incredible range of fish species ...
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  • Clark National Historic Trail, the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, which features a decommissioned nuclear missile silo, and the Missouri ...
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  • From 1950 to 1981 the United States had a missile tracking site on Grand Turk. In the early days of the space program NASA used it. After his ...
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  • hemisphere for example, a ballistic missile fired toward a distant target ... catch in the garden. However, an unguided missile obeys exactly the same physics ...
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  • of American-made FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, which increased aircraft losses of the Soviet Air Force. However, many field commanders ...
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  • strike is the containment building and its missile shield. The NRC's Chairman ... any, containment structure or associated missile shield will be built on ...
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  • Despite Seoul being within North Korean artillery and missile range ... South relationship. However, North Korean missile tests, its October 2006 ...
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  • Mahmud of Ghazni (October 2, 971 – April 30, 1030 C.E.), also known as Yamin ad-Dawlah Mahmud (in full: Yamin ad-Dawlah Abd al-Qasim Mahmud ...
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  • NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...
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  • and the guidance system for a ballistic missile are two examples. Control systems theory is an active field of applied mathematics involving ...
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  • Vehicles, roughly 11,337 Artillery Systems, 7,032 Missile Defense Systems, and 13,000 infantry support systems. Equipment of the ROK Army include the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Paranormal, meaning "outside the norm," is an umbrella ...
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  • the most recent being the nuclear Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) which served until 1991. Congress granted him honorary citizenship ...
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  • positioning of a hand-held surface-to-air missile. August 26, 1988.]] When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Azzam issued a fatwa ...
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  • with the rest of NATO during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, de Gaulle continued his pursuit of an independent defense by removing France& ...
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  • group of responsibility and launched cruise missile attacks (August 20) on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North. The destruction of ...
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  • missiles that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. ... Following the Cuban Missile Crisis and what he perceived as a Soviet ...
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  • French helicopters. The air defense has a Hawk missile program for which the United States provided training, and has taken delivery of two of five ...
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  • World War II battleground, is now used as a U.S. missile test range. == Geography == The country consists of twenty-nine atolls and five isolated ...
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  • weapons on Cuba, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis—a defining incident ... ===Cuban Missile Crisis and furthering socialism: 1962–1968=== ...
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  • by the second Bush administration as National Missile Defense using different technologies). In the 1990s, the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Hijacking is the assumption of control of a vehicle through some means of coercion, often the ...
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  • Air Force Base); a testing range (White Sands Missile Range); an army proving ground and maneuver range (Fort Bliss Military Reservation - McGregor ...
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  • * Nielson, Jack N. Missile Aerodynamics. Mountain View, CA: Nielsen Engineering & Research, 1988. ISBN 0962062901. * Seddon, J., and Simon ...
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  • matters which led to Air Force ballistic missile and space programs. He retired from Air Force duty on February 28, 1959 but continued to serve ...
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  • S. led coalition launched round-the-clock missile and aerial attacks on Iraq ... on June 26, 1993, the U.S. launched a missile attack targeting Baghdad ...
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  • The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated ...
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  • fission atomic bombs, so that a modern single missile warhead bomb weighing less than 1/8th as much as Little Boy (see for example W88) has a yield of ...
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  • and to equal global limits of one hundred INF missile warheads. This culminated in the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF ...
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  • Later, in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kosygin was the ... reach agreement on limiting anti-ballistic missile systems, but the summit ...
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  • Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), a fleet ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarine. Decommissioned on December 1, 1983, Thomas A. Edison was stricken ...
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  • Titanium (chemical symbol Ti, atomic number 22) is a silvery-white, lustrous metal. Light and strong, it is resistant to corrosion, including ...
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  • a hit, and one Israeli died from a Patriot missile hit. During the war, Israel ... Israel leads the Middle East in medium-range ballistic missile development ...
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  • were killed. Iran launched a number of missile attacks against Baghdad, although they caused relatively little damage and few casualties. In ...
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  • positive statement about the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in a public letter with Russia in 2001, shortly after the United States had decided to abandon ...
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  • carriers are considered vulnerable to missile or submarine attacks and therefore travel as part of a "carrier battle group" that includes ...
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  • nuclear-powered attack and ballistic missile submarines. ... developing or acquiring numerous advanced missile systems including submarine ...
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  • Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian mobile launch-missile-dismantling facility in ... increase in 2010 was to fund Israel's missile defense shield. Before his ...
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  • partner, and the prime contractor, was the Lockheed Missile and Space Company. In 1997, the ship was taken to Hunters Point Naval Shipyard for modifications ...
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  • He did advise the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis but was ill at the time the president was assassinated. Asked to stay on by President ...
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  • of the project was to kidnap Italian rocket and missile specialists in Italy and bring them to the U.S. Another project hidden within Larson was called ...
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  • al-Zawahiri was critically injured in a US missile strike at Azam Warsak village ... [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/03/missile-strike-on ...
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  • a remote object as in some early forms of guided missile, some early TV remotes, and a range of model boats, cars, and airplanes. Baby monitors and garage ...
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  • proved valuable to scientists who were studying missile re-entry. ==Work on the Manhattan Project== In 1942, Teller was invited to be part of ...
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  • [[Image:Agni-II missile (Republic Day Parade 2004).jpeg|thumb|400px|right|An Indian-developed Agni-II ballistic missile during a Republic Day ...
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  • Marshall Space Flight Center and the US Army Missile Command, headquartered at Redstone Arsenal. Alabama is also home to the largest industrial ...
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  • of the Arleigh Burke-Class (Flight IIA) Guided Missile Destroyer, USS Mason (DDG 87)]] A helicopter deck (or helo deck) is a helicopter pad on ...
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  • Following the missile deployment and the exercises, both Shultz and Reagan resolved to seek further dialogue with the Soviets. Ronald Reagan, ...
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  • however. On June 26, 1993, the U.S. launched a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for the attempted attack against ...
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  • The first is sponsored by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and is called the Composite Hull High Altitude Powered Platform (CHHAPP). This ...
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  • the submarine-based Trident II ballistic missile system with nuclear warheads. ... deterrent, which consists of Trident missile-armed submarines, while ...
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  • response to the killing of two Lebanese by an IDF missile. Israel conducted massive air raids and extensive shelling in southern Lebanon. 106 Lebanese ...
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  • like the stabbing implement and carried as a missile weapon, typically discharged at the foe, before close contact. None of these weapons changes ...
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  • for aircraft control surfaces, as ballast for missile re-entry vehicles and as a shielding material. Due to its high density, this material is found ...
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  • was forced to resign following this Barak Missile Deal Scandal, another scandal involving the botched supplies of coffins for the soldiers killed ...
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  • way out of the conflict. Although a Russian guided missile attack killed the Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev on April 21, 1996, the rebels persisted ...
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  • A group of Sayeret commandos were taken in nine missile boats and a small fleet of patrol boats to a deserted Lebanese beach, before driving in two cars ...
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  • but by far the most effective was the Strela 2 missile, first introduced to guerrilla forces in Guinea in 1973 and in Mozambique the following year ...
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  • down the Atlantic Missile Range. Unlike Gagarin, whose flight was strictly automatic, Shepard had some control of Freedom 7, spacecraft attitude ...
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  • as SALT I, SALT II, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. ... included Soviet setbacks such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. After a brief period ...
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  • decade's larger conflicts, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Vietnam War. Kennedy, 61–62. Focusing instead on smaller conflicts without ...
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  • Union might use the island to spy on a British missile test prompted the Royal Navy to land a party and officially claim the rock in the name of the ...
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  • to make the U.S. invulnerable to nuclear weapon missile attack, by means of a network of armed satellites orbiting the Earth. Critics dubbed the proposal ...
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  • Historically, artillery (from French artillerie) refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles in war. The term also describes ...
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  • The Three Gorges Dam ( s=三峡大坝|t=三峽大壩|p=Sānxiá Dàbà ) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping ...
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  • in Latin or Greek. The Indian guided missile program that was commenced in 1983 by DRDO has named the five missiles (ballistic and others) that ...
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  • Pons of Balazun died, struck by a stone missile. The situation was tense not only among the military leaders, but also among the clergy. Since ...
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  • The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the body of salty water that covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth's ...
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  • Vietnam when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down by a missile over Hanoi.Dan Nowicki and Bill Muller, [http://archive.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain/articles/2 ...
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  • weapons systems, including the B-1 bomber, the MX missile, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. Kennedy became the Senate's leading advocate for ...
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  • first Mediterranean country to receive guided missile destroyers, which have since been decommissioned. Military service is compulsory for males in ...
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  • a hit, and one Israeli died from a Patriot missile hit. During the war, Israel provided gas masks for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza ...
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  • of weapons such as Fajr-3 (MIRV) missile, Hoot, Kowsar, Fateh-110, Shahab-3, and a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles. Iran is a founding member ...
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  • Japanese citizens and its nuclear weapons and missile program. Japan's military is restricted by Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, ...
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  • Gulf War and by the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2007, the Republic of Ireland was ranked first in the world for political ...
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  • with artillery, tank regiments, air force and missile troops (with nuclear weapons). It was by all means a very capable force that made little contact ...
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