Ballistics

"North Korea displayed nearly 60 missiles — including what is suspected to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile — at a parade on Saturday to mark the 105th birthday of its founder Kim Il-sung." (Gulf News). As of right now, North Korea is just "flexing their muscles" at the rest of the world. Along with showcasing their missile's, they have had some…

The Cold War began at the end of World War Two with the destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American atomic weapons. This led to the rapid surrender of Japanese forces, causing the U.S. To possess the most dangerous and destructive weapons, known to mankind. But the soviets did not want this to be the case and rapidly started developing atomic weapons of their own, this beginning a new generation of warfare, a nuclear arms race, which would last four four decades…

Feldman and Sigelman, in their study “The Political Impact of Prime-Time Television: The Day After”, attempted to answer the question, “[w]hat effects did watching The Day After have?” (557) Moreover, the authors attempted to determine the effects of prime-time television on political opinion (557). Previous research communicated varied results, with some media affecting individual opinion, such as The Right Stuff, while other media failed to empower any substantive modification to political…

North Korea, a power hungry, communist country, is beginning to make an effort in becoming a world power, developing nuclear warheads and hiring spies for intelligence. North Korea is a country of great dynastic rule, spanning over many years. While closely looking at the country under the microscope, it can be seen that it is ruled by a means of totalitarianism, and its structure and function involves violence and intimidation to uphold law within its borders. Along with its communist form of…

on. Computational technology was also fostered with the advent of NORAD. NORAD, officially known as the North American Air Defence Agreement, was developed established in 1958, and catalyzed the improvement of radar technology. In 1962, NORAD’s Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, popularly known as the BMEWS, was operational. The BMEWS was revolutionary, and was able to detect and locate any ICBM launched from Russia and the area surrounding it. An additional technological development was…

Broadly speaking, the US – Russian disarmament talks have continued in the same cold war relationship dynamics between the United States and Soviet Union. The brief interlude of the Yeltsin years was an exception. As soon as Putin took over the helms of Russia, the old cold war dynamics of mistrust and paranoia have come to the fore again. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 underscored the need for responsible nuclear leadership and was a precursor to the détente. During the early Strategic Arms…

Instability and insecurity in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia is accelerating at a dizzying pace due to violent extremist organizations (VEO), poor governance, humanitarian crises, sectarian violence, advanced weapons proliferation and a myriad of other reasons. This situation, along with national budgetary pressures, has caused U.S. strategic leaders to earnestly consider how the Joint Force 2025 must be rebalanced to meet these 21st century threats and to fully support our…

Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, as coined by critics. The initiative was formed on the 23rd of March in the year of 1983. The initiative was proposed at the time as a U.S. strategic defense system against Soviet Union Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, by intercepting the missiles or warheads at various phases of their launch. The initiative would have required an advancement in technology systems, but yet those were still to be developed or researched. The initiative…

THE NORTH KOREAN SPACE PROGRAM North Korea has been at odds with most of the world for quite some time. Following the division of the country in 1948, North Korea has been arguably the least transparent country in the world. The rise of super power nations such as the United States, Russia, and China has made North Korea even more non-transparent. North Koreans have kept much of their military research and development, space program, and every day life under tight lock down. Present day…

3 Launcher has a missile load-out capability between 4 and 16 missiles. The two types of missiles can differ and range from a PAC3 MIM-104F missile to a PAC 2 GEM’s which uses a type of blast fragmentation warhead missile for targeting tactical ballistic missiles and aircraft. The system is software driven. The operators can optimize the system operation parameters into mission requirements through software inputs. While the system database is in tactical operation phase, operators have…