Mar14 - ColdWar04 - John Bowne High School
... President John F. Kennedy: 35th President of the US (1961-63). Premier Nikita Khrushchev: led the USSR during part of the Cold War (after Stalin, from 1953-1964). Fidel Castro : Communist dictator of Cuba from 1961-2011. He is responsible for making Cuba a socialist country which has often been at o ...
... President John F. Kennedy: 35th President of the US (1961-63). Premier Nikita Khrushchev: led the USSR during part of the Cold War (after Stalin, from 1953-1964). Fidel Castro : Communist dictator of Cuba from 1961-2011. He is responsible for making Cuba a socialist country which has often been at o ...
Reagan and Bush Sr. 1981-1993
... removes its control over industries, specifically airlines Still ran a deficit and debt Soon the economy recovered from the recession ...
... removes its control over industries, specifically airlines Still ran a deficit and debt Soon the economy recovered from the recession ...
Appendix
... Using the extra volume for fuel will extend the maximum range by approximately 50 percent. The Soviet Union has not developed a conventional variant of its long-range nuclear SLCM thus far. OTA believes that the “long pole” in the development of such a weapon would be the design of a guidance system ...
... Using the extra volume for fuel will extend the maximum range by approximately 50 percent. The Soviet Union has not developed a conventional variant of its long-range nuclear SLCM thus far. OTA believes that the “long pole” in the development of such a weapon would be the design of a guidance system ...
INF Treaty Dilemma
... The K version of this system is a cruise missile capability. The Russians have tested the capability. Its range is estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 kilometers. This is a violation of the treaty. The Russian tests of this missile began in 2008. The U.S. raised objections on this specific syste ...
... The K version of this system is a cruise missile capability. The Russians have tested the capability. Its range is estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 kilometers. This is a violation of the treaty. The Russian tests of this missile began in 2008. The U.S. raised objections on this specific syste ...
CubanMissileCrisis - joshuabryant
... to pull all of its Jupiter missiles out of Italy and Turkey with United Nations supervision and approval. Tensions between the Cuba and the USSR and the United States remained tense throughout the rest of the Cold War and would remain tense up until recent ...
... to pull all of its Jupiter missiles out of Italy and Turkey with United Nations supervision and approval. Tensions between the Cuba and the USSR and the United States remained tense throughout the rest of the Cold War and would remain tense up until recent ...
The Cold War - Reading Community Schools
... After seven days Kennedy decided to impose a naval blockade around Cuba. ...
... After seven days Kennedy decided to impose a naval blockade around Cuba. ...
Atomic Weapons Program, Soviet - Purdue e-Pubs
... Rosenburg (1918-1953) targeting the United Kingdom and United States. Enhancing their nuclear arsenal through espionage against the U.S. and NATO was an ongoing Soviet goal during the Cold War era. These efforts succeeded in producing the first Soviet atomic bomb exploded on August 29, 1949 at Semip ...
... Rosenburg (1918-1953) targeting the United Kingdom and United States. Enhancing their nuclear arsenal through espionage against the U.S. and NATO was an ongoing Soviet goal during the Cold War era. These efforts succeeded in producing the first Soviet atomic bomb exploded on August 29, 1949 at Semip ...
Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists at Home
... The nuclear arms race was central to the Cold War. Many feared where the Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were. Both America and USSR massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. The world greatly changed when USA exploded the ...
... The nuclear arms race was central to the Cold War. Many feared where the Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were. Both America and USSR massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. The world greatly changed when USA exploded the ...
Cuban Missile Crisis and the Space Race
... • The Arms race frightened many people and families built underground bomb shelters. • Children practiced emergency “duck-andcover” drills at school • Some American groups protested the arms race. They argued the nuclear weapons tests were dangerous and unnecessary. ...
... • The Arms race frightened many people and families built underground bomb shelters. • Children practiced emergency “duck-andcover” drills at school • Some American groups protested the arms race. They argued the nuclear weapons tests were dangerous and unnecessary. ...
Sputnik, 1957
... technological successes. Few in the United States had anticipated it, and even those who did were not aware of just how impressive it would be. At 184 pounds, the Russian satellite was much heavier than anything the United States was developing at the time, and its successful launch was quickly foll ...
... technological successes. Few in the United States had anticipated it, and even those who did were not aware of just how impressive it would be. At 184 pounds, the Russian satellite was much heavier than anything the United States was developing at the time, and its successful launch was quickly foll ...
In the event of nuclear war, what about the great crowd?
... countries, while key aspects of Western military philosophy were subtly shifted from a defensive focus to accommodate what is known as a first-strike policy. During the Cold War era a first strike would surely have provoked a retaliatory response and the MAD syndrome, but due to the advanced technol ...
... countries, while key aspects of Western military philosophy were subtly shifted from a defensive focus to accommodate what is known as a first-strike policy. During the Cold War era a first strike would surely have provoked a retaliatory response and the MAD syndrome, but due to the advanced technol ...
Cuba Aftermath - The Choices Program
... According to the head of operational planning for the Soviet General Staff in 1962, General Anatoly Gribkov, nuclear warheads had indeed reached Cuba in the weeks before the missile crisis erupted. The Soviet warheads (as many as 162 of them) were for use on short-range, tactical nuclear missiles. T ...
... According to the head of operational planning for the Soviet General Staff in 1962, General Anatoly Gribkov, nuclear warheads had indeed reached Cuba in the weeks before the missile crisis erupted. The Soviet warheads (as many as 162 of them) were for use on short-range, tactical nuclear missiles. T ...
The Cold War Unfolds
... 1972 SALT I (Strategic Arms LimitationTalks)froze existing #of nukes, ABM treaty ...
... 1972 SALT I (Strategic Arms LimitationTalks)froze existing #of nukes, ABM treaty ...
Bay of Pigs
... • The Soviets publicly balked at the US demands, but in secret back-channel communications initiated a proposal to resolve the crisis. • Only two weeks after the agreement, the Soviets had removed the missile systems and their support equipment, loading them onto eight Soviet ships, the Soviet Il-28 ...
... • The Soviets publicly balked at the US demands, but in secret back-channel communications initiated a proposal to resolve the crisis. • Only two weeks after the agreement, the Soviets had removed the missile systems and their support equipment, loading them onto eight Soviet ships, the Soviet Il-28 ...
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
... Printing Office, 1990. U .. Co ngre s, Commirree on Foreign Relations. The SALT If Treaty. Report and Hearings. 96rh Congress, 1sr ess ion . Washington , D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. Robert j. Bunker SEE ALSO rraregic Arms Limitation Talks I; Strategic ...
... Printing Office, 1990. U .. Co ngre s, Commirree on Foreign Relations. The SALT If Treaty. Report and Hearings. 96rh Congress, 1sr ess ion . Washington , D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. Robert j. Bunker SEE ALSO rraregic Arms Limitation Talks I; Strategic ...
Anti-communism and Reagan`s foreign policy
... deployment of new US missiles in NATO countries • An Iranian-sponsored terrorist group exploded a car bomb near a Marine barracks in Lebanon killing 241 Americans ...
... deployment of new US missiles in NATO countries • An Iranian-sponsored terrorist group exploded a car bomb near a Marine barracks in Lebanon killing 241 Americans ...
"Rethink Arms Control," Defense News, 29 October 2007
... Similarly, the U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) restricts the deployment of strategic ballistic missiles, but does not distinguish between those carrying nuclear or non-nuclear warheads. As the United States pursues options for developing prompt, global, conventional strike capabi ...
... Similarly, the U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) restricts the deployment of strategic ballistic missiles, but does not distinguish between those carrying nuclear or non-nuclear warheads. As the United States pursues options for developing prompt, global, conventional strike capabi ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
... demands. Recognizing the devastating possibility of a nuclear war, Khrushchev turned his ships back. The Soviets agreed to dismantle the weapon sites and, in exchange, the United States agreed not to invade Cuba. In a separate, unpublicized deal, the U.S. agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from T ...
... demands. Recognizing the devastating possibility of a nuclear war, Khrushchev turned his ships back. The Soviets agreed to dismantle the weapon sites and, in exchange, the United States agreed not to invade Cuba. In a separate, unpublicized deal, the U.S. agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from T ...
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative.Reagan was a vocal critic of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction, and the Strategic Defense Initiative was an important part of his defense policy intended to end MAD as a nuclear deterrence strategy, as well as a strategic initiative to neutralize the military component of Soviet nuclear defenses.The ambitious initiative was widely criticized as being unrealistic, even unscientific, as well as for threatening to destabilize MAD and re-ignite ""an offensive arms race"". SDI was derided, largely in the mainstream media, as ""Star Wars"", after the popular 1977 film by George Lucas. In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global shield such as ""Star Wars"" was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.However, the United States now holds a significant advantage in the field of comprehensive advanced missile defense systems through years of extensive research and testing. Many of the obtained technological insights were transferred to subsequent programs and would find use in follow-up programs.Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, its name was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense; and its scope from global to more regional coverage. It was never truly developed or deployed, though certain aspects of SDI research and technologies paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today. BMDO was renamed to the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. This article covers defense efforts under the SDIO.Under the SDIO's Innovative Sciences and Technology Office, headed by physicist and engineer Dr. James Ionson, the investment was predominantly made in basic research at national laboratories, universities, and in industry; these programs have continued to be key sources of funding for top research scientists in the fields of high-energy physics, supercomputing/computation, advanced materials, and many other critical science and engineering disciplines — funding which indirectly supports other research work by top scientists, and which was most politically viable to fund within the Military budget of the United States environment.