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The Cuban Missile Crisis triggered a series of treaties to be agreed upon throughout the years of 1961-1979, which had a major calming effect on international relations. Unsurprisingly, the majority of the major treaties signed were based around nuclear disarmament or limitations, the first of those being the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. “The treaty was a small but significant step toward the control of nuclear weapons. In the years to come, discussions between the United States and the…

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…

The missile scare was a 13 day confrontation on October 16 through 28, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with Soviet Union missile deployment in Cuba. The Crisis is recognized as the closet the Cold War was to becoming a nuclear war. As a response to the attempted Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961 and the holding of American missiles in Italy and Turkey Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union leader, made an agreement…

Wernher von Braun was born into a family of great wealth and intelligence, shaping his outlook for a career in science. Wernher’s interest in space began at a very young age, and he developed great skills from the schools he attended. He became a prominent figure worldwide because of his involvement with World War I and NASA. He helped the space travel industry in both Germany and the United States, making them some of the most technologically advanced countries. Wernher von Braun began his…

When looking at the patriot missile software failure, I have come to the conclusion the benefits of technology were not worth the cost. The army claimed that using this tactic was 95% effective, when in all actuality it was only about 9% effective. This is a very large difference. There were about 88 scud missiles fired during the gulf war. Only about 8 of them would have been taken down by a patriot missile. That means about 80 scud missiles had the opportunity or did successfully take out a…

Over the past several years, North Korea has focused largely on military and nuclear weapon development, and this year they are beginning to test multiple types of nuclear missiles. In particular, they successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile that accurately traveled 400 kilometers on April 23rd, 2016 (Cook, 1). Tensions between North Korea and the US continue to rise, and concerns about a potential conflict and contingency plans are understandably high. The U.S. has made sure…

memorable confrontations of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest point that the United States and the Soviet Union came to not only having a military conflict but a full out a nuclear war. It was a 13 day standoff over the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba. It all began on October 14th, 1962, when an…

stance in a letter to Khrushchev. Kennedy argued that though “the United States [had to act to] protect its own security and that of its allies,” the quarantine was the “minimum [action] necessary to remove the threat to the security [the Cuban missiles] of the nations of this hemisphere.” Thus, the American president conveyed his desire to extend his diplomatic hand in order to find a peaceful solution to the potentially fatal crisis: “I hope that your Government will refrain from any action…

There are plans “to cut troop levels to pre-World War two levels”. (3(IVD) The Tomahawk cruise missile is a Cold-War weapon system. The Tomahawk cruise missile is still being used today by our navy. The number of Tomahawk cruise missiles purchased is being cut to only 90 this year. During the air campaign in Syria President Barack Obama used nearly 120 of these missiles. This was the navy’s go-to missile. The number of deployed soldiers is being greatly reduced, this is probably because the…

or a secondary source. It is a newspaper article, it's not even an article it is an editorial. This is merely the opinion of a journalist Document 3 is a pretty reliable source. It is all the options that were discussed in the Excom of the Cuban missile crisis. It is a transcript of what was discussed The Soviet Union wanted to both protect Cuba from the US (as Cuba was communist and the USSR wanted to keep it that way,) the US had a policy of containment though, they wouldn't do anything…