Fidel Castro: Korea standoff one of greatest nuclear threats since Cuban Missile CrisisUri Friedman
The United States conducted subsequent experimentation with ALBMs,including a 1974 flight-test of a Minuteman-I intercontinental-range ballistic missileoff a C-5A Galaxy strategic airlifter. Today, the United States uses ALBMs dropped from C-17 Globemasters as target missiles for its tests of missi...
To assess a country's nuclear weapons capability, Hecker uses a three-point evaluation: its knowledge of how to build a nuclear weapon; its supply of weapons-grade materials like plutonium and enriched uranium; and its missile technology to deliver a bomb. ...
Minuteman missile, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that has been the mainstay of the land-based nuclear arsenal of the United States since the 1960s. There have been three generations of Minuteman missiles. The Minuteman I was first deployed in
officials had previously protested (2014) the testing of the missile. Development of this and other new nuclear weapons systems by Russia led by 2018 to plans for a number of new U.S. systems. In Feb., 2019, the Trump administration announced that it would withdraw from the treaty and ...
—and Moscow itself—faster than previously possible. Though this operation took place in response to the Soviets’ development ofsimilarly potent missilesin the late 1970s, Soviet leaders still saw the move as menacing. Just weeks before Able Archer, Soviet Defense MinisterDmitry...
The Cuban missile crisis provides a useful example. “If we have learned anything from this experience, it is that weakness, even only apparent weakness, invites Soviet transgression,” wrote Raymond Garthoff, a State Department intelligence analyst, in 1962. “At the same time, firmness in the...
focused on the neutralization of the nukes in the former USSR. Nuclear Winter will occur only if there is a major detonation — a real, Cold-War style genocidal war. It cannot be accomplished by small-scale nuclear war: the erasure of a city here or there, a few missile bases melted, ...
Kim’s regime has defied United Nations resolutions by firing off about 70 ballistic missiles so far in 2022, nearly three times more than any other year since he took power a decade ago. That has helped build a modern missile arsenal with solid-fuel rockets that are easier to hide, q...
In 1962, unlike today, most things didn’t have computers in them. After all, the typical computer of the day was a fragile room-sized box that required a gaggle of high priests to service it. But the Minuteman I nuclear missile was stuffed full of pre-GPS navigation equipment and a co...