Ballistic missile

The Cold War started in 1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this…

exiles landed on the Cuba Bay of Pigs and they were killed or captured. But President Kennedy took full responsibility for this. The Cuban missile crisis had also happened during the cold war. It was when Russia was building missiles to attack on Cuba or in other terms to test them out on them. But JFK had built a naval blockade near Cuba lines where the missiles would interact with them. At the end of this crisis it did leave a little tension between U.S and Soviet…

Due to Iran’s looming tactical ballistic missile threat, Saudi Arabia has pushed modernization of its missile defense systems. According to Raytheon’s website “Recently, Raytheon received a $1.7 billion contract to upgrade Saudi Arabia’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to the latest Configuration-3. The award includes ground-system hardware, a full training package and support equipment…

extensive funding came in 1957, after the successful launch of the Soviet’s Sputnik 1 satellite. After the American public was shocked by what President Dwight D. Eisenhower described as the “Science gap”, the US government perceived an extreme need for missile defense programs such as SAGE, and further allocated funds to allow for…

For my Op-Ed piece I chose to read “We Need a Strategy for the Middle East,” by John McCain. The article was published on October 24th, 2017 and basically outlines the current situation in the Middle East and John McCain’s opinion on how we should proceed. For the majority of the article, McCain goes through and explains every conflict going on in the Middle East. To start he informs the reader of recent attacks on our Kurdish allies by Iranian backed Iraqi militia forces, some armed with US…

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, on Monday, February 6th, 1911. He graduated from Dixon high in 1928, as an athlete and Student body President and performed in many school plays. Reagan enrolled and attended Eureka college of Illinois on an athletic scholarship, where he majored in Economics and Sociology. He also played football, ran track, captained the swim team, served as student council president and acted in school productions. Graduating in 1932, he found an open…

investment in numerous nuclear warheads, advanced missiles, and an anti-ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) system. This increase nearly led to an arms race with Russia, but the government in the Soviet Union knew that their economy would be unable to compete. Instead, Mikhail Gorbachev, acting Soviet leader, agreed to sign the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, which compelled the U.S. and Russia to disassemble nuclear missiles with a range of 500-5,500 kilometers…

offensive anti-surface warfare from subsurface platforms and maintain the ability to support forced entry operations. According to the 2014 QDR, the USN provides sea-based strategic deterrence, growing their inventory by investing in the SSBN (X) ballistic missile submarine in 2021 and the F-35 fighter program among other programs; all while returning to 2001 contractor support levels, it curtails the Littoral Combat Ship program and slates their AEGIS cruisers for long-term modernization. The…

How Sputnik Came to be Artificial Satellites orbiting earth were a dream that the world pushed and pushed to achieve. Something that only happen in children’s imaginations. Something most people only dreamed about. Until October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into space. So why was Sputnik such an important period in American History?? Sputnik was a creation of the Soviet Union and the size of it was surprising to the world. Sputnik 1 was a spherical little pod with 4 antennas…

others. Nixon played his part well in this “scheme” and became the first president to visit Moscow. While in Moscow, Nixon and Brezhnev formed and signed two important treaties of the Cold War Era; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and an Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Though significant for their time, these treaties did nothing to slow the building, collecting, and storing of arms, but paved the way to improving relations in regards to armaments in both nations. This relationship fostered…