Intercontinental ballistic missile

Should Britain Scrap Trident? Mark McLaughlin Over the past 10 years, there has been much debate on the Trident Renewal programme. On 19th July 2016, Members of Parliament finally voted for its renewal by a majority of 355. Therefore, Trident will be renewed and the overall cost will be a staggering £205 billion. I strongly disagree with this decision. I am convinced that Britain would be better off without Trident; I strongly…

acronym MAD (Opposing Viewpoints), came about. The philosophy stated that any countries attacked with a nuclear bomb would retaliate to the launch of a nuclear device of their own,causing the destruction of both parties. In the case of the Cuban-Missile crisis, both parties had to consider the destructive nature of the weapons and the after-effects of using them and ultimately chose to compromise. Without the ever-present threat of nuclear weapons, the United States and Russia surely would…

More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

As the bright colors of confetti covering one of the cathedrals of European football, Stadio San Siro begin to settle and the blood, sweat and tears of both Atleti and Real Madrid players begin to encrust in history, from a neutral perspective, one cannot help but feel sorry for the Atleti players who once again have been stripped off of the title of grand conquerors of Europe by their fiercest city rivals, Real Madrid. The narrative itself would have been a Marxist dream. A team with…

evolved through many technological advances. During current military operations, Soldiers are suited up with bulletproof vests, and outer tactical vests with ballistic material for bullet resistance. The progress of body armor over many many years has gone all the was from animal skins, to chains covering a knight's body, all the way to ballistic vests, fully bulletproof suits, military helmets with bullet proof technology made of Kevlar® fiber, tested to obtain shrapnel, fragmentation and 9mm…

Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States. • In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. • The development of an ABM system could allow one side to launch a first strike and then prevent the other from retaliating by shooting down incoming missiles. • Johnson therefore called…

watch the movie 13 Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. There was so much tension in the world at the time with the two world superpowers being the USA and the USSR. Something was bound to happen. Mid October, the President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy was told that there were 32 Mid Range Ballistic Missiles in Cuba that were being assembled by Soviets. Eventually this escalated to around 40 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. This was a really big deal,…

combination, in 1949.[21] The German rocket team was moved from Fort Bliss to the Army's new Redstone Arsenal, located in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1950.[22] From here, von Braun and his team developed the Army's first operational medium-range ballistic missile, the Redstone rocket, that in slightly modified versions, launched both America's first satellite, and the first piloted Mercury space missions.[22] It became the basis for both the Jupiter and Saturn family of rockets.[22]…

Diplomacy and Cold War: An Example from the Cuban Missile Crisis The Cold War was the economic, geopolitical and ideological battle between two superpowers: the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) that started at the end World War II and lasted until the disunion of the Soviet Union. The era was marked by continuous conflict between two superpower states that ranged from nuclear submarines to most advanced technology at the time. The two nations,…

In the fog amid the Cuban Missile Crisis or also known as the October Crisis, overseers of the Soviet Union and the United States occupied with an on edge, 13 day political and military in October 1962, over the establishment of atomic equipped soviet rockets on Cuba which is only 90 miles from the United States shores. On October 22, 1962 President John Kennedy advised Americans about the nearness of the rockets, he disclosed his choice to order a maritime barricade around Cuba which he made it…