Intercontinental ballistic missile

was, it would have to go into Earths orbit.Which led to many other ideas. Such as going to the moon. When the Soviets heard about this, they were angered of the thought of a satellite. With the equipment to put objects in space, you could launch missiles to the other side of Earth and take out any country in sight. Instead of destroying everything and everyone you…

Company and Organization Aerojet Rocketdyne is a defense and aerospace contractor that deals heavily with the U.S. government and its various agencies such as NASA, the Missile Defense Agency and the US Air Force. However, the company also acts as a contractor and subcontractor to other companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s history dates back to the 1940’s when its co-founders from California Institute of Technology created a groundbreaking new technology called Jet…

The effects of the Cold War, fear of the Soviet Union, and fear of a nuclear apocalypse, shaped US politics, policy, and culture from 1945-1960. No sooner was World War II and America and Russia’s wartime alliance dissolved, than tensions began to rise. The danger of the Cold War turning hot factored into every decision made in the US government, and plagued of thoughts of every american citizen. Although there was doubtless a lot of fear-mongering by Washington politicians, such as Joseph…

One of the most important conflicts in the history of the United States, was actually one that involved no fighting. For the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and Russia were in a race to develop the most nuclear weapons and to spread their political beliefs around the world. This conflict is know as the Cold War. It could have been one of the deadliest and most world involved wars know to man, but thankfully there was no fighting between the two nations. However, there was…

World Affairs COLD WAR, DETENTE AND THE RENEWAL OF TENSION The emergence of a Bipolar World: Before the smoke had even settled down shortly after the World War II, there was a new war of ideologies gathering into force. The Soviet Union and the United States had collaborated in defeating the fascist empires of Japan, Italy and Germany. Nonetheless, as it approached the culmination of 1945, the wartime coalition crumbled. The United States, anchoring the Capitalist World, and the Soviet Union,…

Similar to the explorations of the New World and South America to be conquered, space is the modern conquest where we endeavor to survey our solar system and investigate the vast universe. What first arose as an idea in the 1950s, it has continued to expand advancing the rate of technological improvement. Some would say, other than exploration what greater influence has the reconnaissance of space brought upon? Other than analyzing different spectrums of the galaxy, the conquest of space led to…

However, with no dominant threat the nuclear powers such as the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China are defensive of their continued use of nuclear weapons as a means to bully in international politics. Since the powers refuse to disarm, it has been the work of smaller nations, as well as citizen groups, who have the most progress towards a nuclear free tomorrow. Many smaller nations are making strides towards disarmament with the extreme example being South Africa who…

The twenty-first century has been a time of great advancement for humanity, but also a time of great decline of American influence, as a whole, across the globe. With the world’s once greatest superpower now showing weakness, lying vulnerable, the time is ripe for a rising star to make a grab at achieving the hegemonic status that has lain in the stable hands of the Americans for so long, to pull the rug out from under their feet. As history has shown the transition of a new power into and…

dropped from Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, not intercontinental ballistic missiles. With the redeployment of the German Luftwaffe (air force) to the Western Front, it’s improbable that the United States would risk dropping “Fat Man” or “Little Boy” on the German Reich. Especially after Albert Speer revived the research and development of Wunderwaffe (wonder-weapons) like the Wasserfall Ferngelenkte Flakrakete – a modified V-2 rocket used as a surface-to-air missile – and the Messerschmitt Me 262…

If you have heard the quote “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”, it is talking about how Neil Armstrong and his team, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins landed on the moon which marked history for the U.S. and for the world in 1969. After the successful mission of the Apollo 11 the U.S finally landed a man on the moon, this resulted in uniting America more than ever, it resulted in over 6,000 inventions that we use daily, and most importantly, it ended the space race between the…