Intermediate-range ballistic missile

Is nuclear deterrence morally acceptable? The reason for the controversy surrounding moral acceptability in nuclear deterrence, stems from the devastation nuclear weapons can cause, including high civilian death tolls. This creates a dilemma for nuclear deterrence because of the nature of deterrence itself. It is important to understand at this point that deterrence, by nature, is only effective when the threat is credible. The state has to be absolutely prepared to carry out the deterrence…

uses were during World War 2 and used by and first developed by the United States. Since then the majority of dominant Nations have each amassed large quantities and stores of their own Nuclear weapons. Ranging from bombs, to Intercontinental Ballistic missiles, and MIRV’s or multiple independently target-able re-entry vehicles. Most countries of the world have some sort of nuclear weapon and yet we have remained civilized enough to this day to refrain from their use in war against each other.…

The Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC 3) is a surface to air missile fired from a Phased Array Tracking Radar of Target (PATRIOT) Launching element. The Air Defense Artillery Branch is the primary branch that uses the technology. The missile provides air and missile defense capabilities in the defense of U.S deployed forces and allies. The PAC-3 missile effects more countries other than the United States, countries such as; Bahrain, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait,…

of the art next generation defense technologies. It is in the discussions to implement the nuclear infrastructure modernization and the replacement of the Boeing-built Minuteman missile systems, operated by the U.S.A. Air Force Combat Command and are long-range, solid fuel, three stage intercontinental ballistic missiles. Northrop Grumman is anticipated to participate in the future tender process pertaining the replacement. The estimated cost of the replacement contract value is $85 billion US…

the US did. At the time of the talks, the US and Soviet Union had begun the process of creating anti-ballistic missiles which would protect them in the event that they were attacked with nuclear weapons. Interestingly enough, even this was seen as threatening as the nuclear weapons themselves. Anti-ballistic missiles are surface-to-air missiles which are capable of countering ballistic missiles used to deliver nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads. The development of these systems were…

“These islands aren 't causing this problem. And because of that, they 're powerless to save themselves” (CNN). As a resident of East Tennessee, I do not see the effects of global warming on a day-to-day basis; if I’m being honest, I do not believe I have ever really experienced this besides an abnormally warm winter’s day. I have always heard of global warming being a thing, but I never realized how it impacts the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each day. After reading these articles,…

Strategic Defense Initiative The mission of the Missile Defense Agency is “to develop, test, and field an integrated, layered, ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight” (History). Today, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is the United States’ ballistic missile research and development organization that resulted from the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative…

themselves from something that was never going to happen. The end of the Cold War would have never ended if Reagan hadn 't created the treaty 's of SDI and BMD, Ronalds speech to break the Berlin Wall, and of course the main end of it all the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force. There are debates and different opinions of who ended the Cold War. Searching the facts led me to believe that Ronald Reagan was the one to truly end the Cold…

Korea developed their missile technology from reverse-engineering Soviet Scud-type missiles that they acquired from Egypt in the early 1980s (Moniz). As for their nuclear program, “PyongYang received Moscow’s help from the late 1950s to the 1980s: it helped build a nuclear research reactor, provided missile designs, light-water reactors, and some nuclear fuel.” (Albert). Furthermore, Russian missile experts were present in North Korea in the 1990s and reports of Soviet missile transfers to North…

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,…