Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux, Volume 1DeVolpi, Inc., 2004 - 500 pages |
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... MIRV, ABM, SLCM, ASAT, etc. This action-reaction cycle, as though there were a Newton's Law of international rivalry, propelled the participants to ever more dangerous confrontations and outrageous budgetary excesses. And what did we ...
... MIRV, ABM, SLCM, ASAT, etc. This action-reaction cycle, as though there were a Newton's Law of international rivalry, propelled the participants to ever more dangerous confrontations and outrageous budgetary excesses. And what did we ...
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... MIRV SALT I. TTBT I - 6 I - 24 I - 24 I - 24 I - 24 I - 25 I - 25 I - 25 I - 7 I - 25 I - 26 B. POST - WAR YEARS [ 1945-1960s ] I - 8 • Afghanistan I - 26 Nuclear Secrecy I - 8 The 1980s I - 26 The Iron Curtain I - 8 PD - 59 I - 27 ...
... MIRV SALT I. TTBT I - 6 I - 24 I - 24 I - 24 I - 24 I - 25 I - 25 I - 25 I - 7 I - 25 I - 26 B. POST - WAR YEARS [ 1945-1960s ] I - 8 • Afghanistan I - 26 Nuclear Secrecy I - 8 The 1980s I - 26 The Iron Curtain I - 8 PD - 59 I - 27 ...
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... MIRVs (missiles with multiple warheads), which could penetrate Soviet defenses. (MIRV stands for “multiple, independently targetable re-entry vehicle” — next Section.) see On 14 March 1969, the U.S. government announced that a modified ...
... MIRVs (missiles with multiple warheads), which could penetrate Soviet defenses. (MIRV stands for “multiple, independently targetable re-entry vehicle” — next Section.) see On 14 March 1969, the U.S. government announced that a modified ...
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... MIRV systems ( see box ) , partly as bargaining chips for talks with the Soviets . Under the Nixon doctrine , all treaty commitments were to be honored while American allies were to be accorded a nuclear shield.117 117 ABM . In an ...
... MIRV systems ( see box ) , partly as bargaining chips for talks with the Soviets . Under the Nixon doctrine , all treaty commitments were to be honored while American allies were to be accorded a nuclear shield.117 117 ABM . In an ...
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... MIRV, their large ICBMs, the Backfire bomber, the B-1 bomber, and U.S. cruise missiles (see boxes). Backfire. The Soviet medium-range bomber Tu-22M, (called the Backfire by the United States) was deployed in 1974; it became a source of ...
... MIRV, their large ICBMs, the Backfire bomber, the B-1 bomber, and U.S. cruise missiles (see boxes). Backfire. The Soviet medium-range bomber Tu-22M, (called the Backfire by the United States) was deployed in 1974; it became a source of ...
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Page 43 - In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Page 102 - Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Page 98 - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Page 46 - Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
Page 44 - We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea, like the children of Hamlin marching blindly along behind their Pied Piper.