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  • Shahab-3 (missile)/Definition
    ...missile|medium range]] category but being upgraded to [[intermediate range ballistic missile|intermediate range]]; capable of carrying a nuclear weapon although accurac
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  • Intermediate range ballistic misile
    #REDIRECT [[Ballistic missile#Intermediate range ballistic missile]]
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  • Theater ballistic missile/Definition
    ...an that of an [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] making it an easier [[ballistic missile defense]] problem
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  • Atmospheric reentry/Related Articles
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  • Jericho (missile)/Definition
    ...e]]s; [[Jericho III (missile)|Jericho III]] is of the [[intermediate-range ballistic missile|intermediate-range]] class
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  • MGM-52 Lance/Definition
    ...rmy]]; replaced by the [[MGM-140 ATACMS]] and still used as a target for [[ballistic missile defense]] tests
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  • UGM-133 Trident D5/Definition
    ...ntly targeted reentry vehicle]]s banned from land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s
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  • Intermediate-range ballistic missile
    {{main|Ballistic missile}} {{seealso|Ballistic missile defense}}
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  • Theater ballistic missile/Related Articles
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  • Missile defense
    While the terms [[ballistic missile defense]] and [[anti-ballistic missile]] are commonly heard, the reality is that they are subsets of '''missile de "Missile" does not necessarily mean guided, even to the extent of ballistic missile initial and midcourse guidance. [[Counter-artillery, rocket and mortar]] (C
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  • RIM-161 Standard/Definition
    ...to be fired from the [[Vertical Launch System]] of ships equipped with the ballistic missile defense upgrade to the [[AEGIS battle management system]]
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  • V-1000 (missile)/Related Articles
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  • Surface-to-surface missile/Related Articles
    {{r|Theater ballistic missile}} {{r|Intermediate-range ballistic missile}}
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  • Novator R-172 (missile)/Related Articles
    {{r|Ballistic missile defense}} {{r|Anti-ballistic missile}}
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    {{r|Submarine-launched ballistic missile}} {{r|Ballistic missile submarine}}
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  • Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (missile)/Related Articles
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  • Submarine-launched ballistic missile/Definition
    A [[ballistic missile]] launched from a normally submerged [[submarine]], which has multiple engi
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  • S-300 PMU (missile)/Definition
    ...series of advanced Soviet/Russian [[surface-to-air missile]] and [[theater ballistic missile]] defense systems
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  • Ohio-class/Definition
    The sole operational class of U.S. [[ballistic missile submarine]]s, firing the Trident D5; some have been converted for special o
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  • SPY-2/Definition
    ...y radar for [[AEGIS battle management system]] ships, which adds theater [[ballistic missile defense]] engagement for the [[RIM-161 Standard SM-3]] missile
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  • Rocket science/Related Articles
    {{r|Ballistic missile}} {{r|Submarine launched ballistic missile}}
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  • Lockheed-Martin high altitude airship/Definition
    ...United States Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency to enhance its Ballistic Missile Defense System.
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  • Missile defense/Definition
    ...ostile intent, against a target, the defense problem is far greater than [[ballistic missile defense]], including defense against [[cruise missile]]s and [[counter-rock
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  • Strategic strike/Related Articles
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  • MPQ-53
    ...ponsibility of the '''AN/MPQ-53''' radar. The Patriot is primarily an anti-ballistic missile (ABM), also capable of surface-to-air missile (SAM) operation. Patriot missiles form the lower-level of a tiered ballistic missile defense system with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (missile). The
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  • RIM-161 Standard SM-3/Related Articles
    {{r|Ballistic missile defense}} {{r|Theater ballistic missile defense}}
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  • Ballistic Missile
    #Redirect [[Ballistic missile]]
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  • Medium range ballistic missile/Related Articles
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  • Standard SM missile series/Definition
    ...y a number of countries; primarily for [[anti-air warfare]] but also for [[ballistic missile defense]] and [[anti-shipping missile|attacking surface ships]]
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  • Fleet ballistic missile submarine
    #REDIRECT [[Ballistic missile submarine]]
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  • SSBN
    #REDIRECT [[Ballistic missile submarine]]
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  • ICBM
    #redirect[[Intercontinental ballistic missile]]
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  • Medium-Range Ballistic Missile
    #Redirect [[Medium range ballistic missile]]
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  • IRBM
    #REDIRECT [[Intermediate-range ballistic missile]]
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  • Medium-range Ballistic Missile
    #Redirect [[Medium range ballistic missile]]
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  • Medium-range ballistic missile
    #Redirect [[Medium range ballistic missile]]
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  • Intermediate range ballistic missile
    #REDIRECT [[Intermediate-range ballistic missile]]
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  • SRBM
    #REDIRECT [[short range ballistic missile]]
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  • MRBM
    #REDIRECT [[medium range ballistic missile]]
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  • Medium Range Ballistic Missile
    #Redirect [[Medium range ballistic missile]]
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  • M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System/Definition
    ...ange [[surface-to-surface missile]]s, or one [[MGM-140 ATACMS]] tactical [[ballistic missile]]
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  • HGM-25A Titan I/Definition
    First-generation U.S. [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]
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  • S-200 (missile)/Definition
    ...with the '''SA-5 GRIFFON''', which was the [[V-1000 (missile)|V-1000 anti-ballistic missile]]
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  • SS-1 SCUD/Definition
    A Soviet-designed short range and inaccurate [[ballistic missile]], a near-copy of the [[Second World War]] [[V-2]] missile, that was widely
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  • UGM-27 Polaris/Definition
    The first operational [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]], of medium to intermediate range
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  • Kongo-class
    ...[[AEGIS battle management system]] and the supplementary [[SPY-2|AN/SPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar]]. This will allow them to use the [[RIM-161 Standard SM-3]] ...ainst ballistic missiles, and is considering the [[THAAD]] land-based anti-ballistic missile to form an intermediate tier between the SM-3 and Patriot.
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  • Vanguard-class
    The '''Vanguard-class''' is a class of [[Ballistic missile submarine|ballistic missile submarine]] operated by the [[Royal Navy]] with the designation Ship Submer ...ase a quantity of U.S. [[UGM-133 Trident D5|Trident]] [[Submarine-launched ballistic missile|ballistic missiles]] to be deployed in four purpose-built submarines. The f
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  • Shahab-3 (missile)
    ...range of 2,500 km have been reported, which go into the intermediate range ballistic missile category. A 3D version may be a space launch vehicle.
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  • Ballistic missile submarine/Definition
    A submarine armed with [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]s
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  • V-2/Definition
    World's first operational [[ballistic missile]], developed by [[Nazi Germany]]: (Vergeltungswaffe 2).
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  • Vanguard-class/Definition
    British-developed and operated [[ballistic missile submarine]]s, armed with [[UGM-133 Trident D5]] missiles with UK-built warh
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  • V-1000 (missile)
    ...limited operational capability, the '''V-1000''' was the first Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM), succeeded by the A-35 (missile). Development began in 1956, flight t
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  • S-300 PMU (missile)/Related Articles
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  • Intermediate-range ballistic missile/Definition
    [[Ballistic missile]] with a range between 1,400-5,499 km (1,500-3,437 mi).
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  • Short range ballistic missile
    ...llistic missiles (SRBM)''' were the first and still most common class of [[ballistic missile]]s, with a range between 150-799 km/94-499 mi. The class started with the G ...l defense. Defenses still can be overloaded, and the faster [[medium range ballistic missile]]s are harder to intercept.
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  • George Washington-class/Definition
    The first class of [[fleet ballistic missile submarine]]s in the [[United States Navy]], now all decommisioned.
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  • LGM-30 Minuteman/Definition
    ...nuteman III version, the only operational US land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]], fired from ultrahardened underground silos
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  • MPQ-65
    ...integrated air defense system|aircraft]], [[cruise missile]] and [[theater ballistic missile]] defense.
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  • W70 (nuclear weapon)/Definition
    Warhead for the [[MGM-52 Lance]] short-range ballistic missile; 100 kt in Mod 0; Mod 3 was "enhanced radiation" or "neutron bomb"
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  • USS McCampbell (DDG-85)/Definition
    ...t IIA [[Burke-class]] destroyer, first to receive the [[SPY-2|AN/SPY-2]] [[ballistic missile defense]] radar upgrade
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  • Space launch vehicle
    ...e, which is hitting a target on earth. The same physical vehicle used as a ballistic missile, however, often have been programmed as SLV. Space launch vehicles are used
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  • TPY-2/Related Articles
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  • United States Air Force/Definition
    ...ponsible for land-based aircraft, as well as land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s
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  • Ballistic missile/Related Articles
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  • European ballistic missile defense/Definition
    Analysis of current ballistic missile threats to the continent of Europe, as well as defensive systems feasible i
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  • Warhead
    A ballistic missile may have '''multiple warheads of different types''', mounted im specialized ...le with the incoming ballistic missile warhead(s). The kinetic energy of a ballistic missile is so great that adding a chemical explosive would not add significantly to
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  • FPQ-16/Definition
    ...Perimeter Attack Radar Characterization System for the cancelled Safeguard ballistic missile defense, now a fixed ground radar with a space surveillance mission
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  • Red Army/Definition
    ...[[Soviet Union]], not limited to land forces but including its [[navy]], [[ballistic missile|Strategic Rocket Troops]], [[integrated air defense system|Air Defense]], e
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  • William Raborn/Definition
    ...by great success in creating the [[UGM-27 Polaris]] [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]], and an embarrassing assignment as [[Director of Central Intelligence]],
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  • Brian Kennedy/Definition
    ...lisher of the Claremont Review of Books and also directs the Institute's [[ballistic missile defense]] program
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  • Kongo-class/Definition
    ...e licensed copies of the U.S. [[Burke-class]] and are being upgraded for [[ballistic missile defense]]
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  • F. E. Warren Air Force Base
    ...e [[Twentieth Air Force]] and a third of the land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s of the United States.
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  • Twentieth Air Force/Definition
    ...ce Space Command]] for the readiness of U.S. land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s, and to the [[United States Strategic Command]] for their operational us
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  • Ticonderoga-class/Definition
    ...t capable of independent action including long-range strike, anti-air/anti-ballistic missile/anti-satellite warfare, naval gunfire support, and antisubmarine warfare.
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  • M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System/Definition
    ...[[XM31 (rocket)|XM31 guided rockets]], or one [[MGM-140 ATACMS]] tactical ballistic missile)
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  • TPY-2
    ...artillery in theater and tactical applications. As a component of national ballistic missile defense, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency is responsible for AN/TPY-2 applic ...destroyers so they can use the longer-range RIM-161 Standard SM-3 theater ballistic missile defense.
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  • USS Lake Erie (CG-70)/Definition
    ...h has been one of the primary test ships for the [[RIM-161 Standard SM-3]] ballistic missile defense system; she successfully shot down a malfunctioning satellite in 20
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  • Missile warning receiver
    ...to theater and strategic [[electro-optical MASINT]] systems that detect [[ballistic missile|ballistic]] and [[cruise missile]]s.
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  • Claremont Institute/Definition
    ...ative think tank with special interests in military aspects of space and [[ballistic missile defense]], as well as [[terrorism]] and restoring the principles of the Fou
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  • FPS-49/Definition
    ...HF frequency spectrum]], which was the initial tracking component of the [[Ballistic Missile Early Warning System]]; replaced by the UHF [[FPS-92|AN/FPS-92]]
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  • UGM-133 Trident D5
    '''UGM-133 Trident D5''' [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]s (SLBM) arm the [[Ohio-class]] submarine component of the U.S. nuclear tr ...nal scenario, but placing them on a par with land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s.
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  • SPY-2
    ...AEGIS battle management system radar; it gives new capabilities needed for ballistic missile defense that are not part of the basic SPY-1|AN/SPY-1 main AEGIS radar. It ...ves long-range detection, tracking and discrimination of advanced theater ballistic missile (TBM) threats.<ref name=GS-SPY2>{{citation
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  • Cruiser/Definition
    ...ace warfare]], [[anti-submarine warfare]], [[land attack]], and possibly [[ballistic missile defense]]
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  • Kongo-class/Related Articles
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  • MGM-140 ATACMS/Definition
    A short- to medium-range [[ballistic missile]], developed by the [[U.S. Army]] to engage high-value ground targets beyon
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  • Fourteenth Air Force
    ...Perimeter Attack Radar Characterization System for the cancelled Safeguard ballistic missile defense, with a current space surveillance mission.
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  • Ballistic missile submarine
    ...ll submarines, but have some unique to their operational role. In general, ballistic missile submarines, all modern versions of which have the [[naval vessel designatio Ballistic missile submarines are national-level strategic assets; their most important advant
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  • Marshall Islands/Definition
    ...nment but the U.S. in control of foreign policy; the U.S. operates large [[ballistic missile defense]] test ranges
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  • W88 (nuclear weapon)/Definition
    ...on the [[UGM-133 Trident D5 |UGM-133 Trident II D5]] [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]], with high accuracy and increased safeguards, although not [[insensitive
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  • Environmental Sensing Device (military)/Definition
    ...ed bomb, or the launch acceleration, conditions in space, and reentry of a ballistic missile trajectory; a key safeguard for nuclear weapons
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  • Standard SM missile series
    ...[[anti-shipping missile]] capability. The [[RIM-161 Standard SM-3]] is a [[ballistic missile defense]] weapon. On newer U.S. Navy vessels, the combination of SM-2 in a The [[RIM-161 Standard SM-3]] was developed for [[ballistic missile defense]], but has also demonstrated anti-satellite capability. It uses the
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  • Edward Teller/Definition
    ...e of an unassailable nuclear arsenal, and support for President Reagan's [[ballistic missile defense|Strategic Defensive Initiative]].
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  • SS-1 SCUD
    ...an adaptation of the World War II German V-2 rocket, the first operational ballistic missile, and did not feature much more advanced technology. The German missile was
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  • Kwajalein Atoll/Definition
    ...location of the main Japanese bases in Micronesia, and with a major U.S. [[ballistic missile defense]] test and surveillance site on Kwajalein Island, the largest and s
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  • United States Strategic Command/Definition
    ...k operations of the [[Global Information Grid]], information operations, [[ballistic missile defense]], and reduction of [[weapons of mass destruction]] threats
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  • Hit-to-kill
    ...combined mechanical energy of an interceptor crashing against an incoming ballistic missile is far greater than any non-nuclear explosives would provide.
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  • Theater ballistic missile
    ...the inventory of many nations. It is not as fast as an [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] and, while not simple to defend against, presents a less difficult proble
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  • Atmospheric reentry
    ...process include [[spacecraft]] from [[orbit]], as well as [[suborbital]] [[ballistic missile]] '''reentry vehicles'''. Typically, this process requires special methods
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  • Cold launch
    The technique is a practical necessity for [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]s, where the hot exhaust of a rocket motor could be catastrophic.
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  • Strategic Forces Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee/Definition
    ...|nuclear and non-nuclear]] strategic forces, strategic [[arms control]], [[ballistic missile defense]]; related intelligence programs, [[military applications of space|
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  • MGM-52 Lance
    ...retired as a weapons system, continue to be used as targets for [[theater ballistic missile]] defense tests.
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  • F. E. Warren Air Force Base/Definition
    ...[[Twentieth Air Force]], of the operational land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s of the United States, as well as approximately one-third of the missiles
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  • Missile vehicle
    ...de-Topol-M.jpg|right|350px|Russia's truck-mounted TOPOL-M intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).}} ...rkroastedblend.com/2007/03/russian-ballistic-missile-carriers.html Russian Ballistic Missile Carriers]</ref> As of December 2008, there are six such road-mobile missil
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  • Hit-to-kill/Definition
    ..., it can include the immense energies of a collision between an incoming [[ballistic missile]] and an intercept vehicle. It is a subset of [[kinetic kill]], which inclu
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  • Cruise missile defense
    ...uncher, but cruise missile launchers are far more likely to be mobile than ballistic missile launchers. Ballistic missiles have an additional boost phase engagement pha
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  • Medium range ballistic missile
    A '''medium range ballistic missile (MRBM)''' has a range between 600 and 1500 miles.
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  • Submarine-launched ballistic missile
    ...the current generation has range comparable to that of an intercontinental ballistic missile.<ref name=STARTGlossary>{{citation While nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines would be likely to fire from well-guarded waters near their home
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  • Novator R-172 (missile)
    ...issile) (NCADE). While NCADE is initially intended as an air-launched anti-ballistic missile, it could also be used against high value assets.
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  • Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (missile)
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  • Navy
    ...of the basic naval missions go back to antiquity, while others, such as [[ballistic missile defense]], are recent. ...ot called a navy. Nevertheless, it has first-rate combatants, capable of [[ballistic missile defense]] and [[anti-submarine warfare]], as a check on North Korea and Chi
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  • Strategic Forces Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee
    ...ee''' oversees nuclear and strategic forces, strategic [[arms control]], [[ballistic missile defense]]; related intelligence programs, [[military applications of space| ==Ballistic missile defense==
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  • MGM-140 ATACMS
    ...-140 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System)''' is a short to medium-range [[ballistic missile]].<ref name=Parsch>{{citation
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    A second-generation U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, the
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  • National Institute for Public Policy
    Among its areas of research are nuclear warfare and [[ballistic missile defense]], about which Political Research Associates says it is an influen
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    ...nce the technology used in an SLV is virtually identical to that used in a ballistic missile, which poses genuine potential for missile proliferation.</blockquote> :*complete rocket systems (including [[ballistic missile]]s, space launch vehicles and sounding rockets)
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    '''UGM-27 Polaris''' [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]s were the first SLBMs in operational use. Previously, submarine-launched While an [[intermediate range ballistic missile]], the Polaris was signficantly smaller than its land-based cousins, the Ai
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  • William Raborn
    ...ed to the first operational [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]] and [[ballistic missile submarine]]. The low point was as [[Director of Central Intelligence]]. ...the other services for authority, the U.S. Navy was authorized to start a ballistic missile program. Burke, then [[Chief of Naval Operations]], gave him a "hunting lic
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  • Futures studies
    ...tood, and produced the [[Atlas (missile)|Atlas]] series [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s. ...ahn-Strasseman point for believing a solid propellant [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]] was feasible. It took considerable applied research, however, to move fro
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  • Land attack
    ...al Plan]] for nuclear warfare was the introduction of [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]s (SLBM), to which land-based airpower advocates could not reasonably argu
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  • United States Strategic Command
    ...States Navy, which, first from aircraft and then with a submarine-launched ballistic missile force. President Dwight D. Eisenhower became increasingly concerned about S ...orce and Navy. The combined force was called the Triad, consisting of Navy ballistic missile submarines, and Air Force intercontinental ballistic missiles and bomber ai
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  • Weather intelligence
    ...longest of ranges, such as winds in the target area of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Applications such as missile targeting, or optimizing the performance of i
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  • S-300 PMU (missile)
    ...UMBLE'''. Later versions have [[anti-ballistic missile]] against [[theater ballistic missile]]s and also against [[cruise missile]]s. <ref name=Deagel>{{citation
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  • SPY-1
    ...as had a number of upgrades; the SPY-2|AN/SPY-2 is an add-on component for ballistic missile defense, whose antenna mounts on top of that of the SPY-1. Other radars wor
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  • M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
    ...227mm in diameter and 13 feet long, or one [[MGM-140 ATACMS]] tactical [[ballistic missile]]. It can fire:<ref name=FM6-60-Ch1>{{citation
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  • Target acquisition
    In other applications, such as [[ballistic missile defense]], long range is highly desirable; the farther away the target can
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  • Ticonderoga-class
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  • Michael Auslin
    ...agement system, Japan has bought and tested the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 anti-ballistic missile, while the Republic of Korea have not. All three countries do have the MIM-
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  • Refueling and Overhaul
    ...ed missile submarine]] (SSGN). Such a conversion consists of taking the [[ballistic missile]]s and their silos out of the missile section in the submarine, and replaci
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  • Intercontinental ballistic missile
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  • M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
    ...M31 [[surface-to-surface missile]]s, or one [[MGM-140 ATACMS]] tactical [[ballistic missile]]. It can fire:<ref name=FM6-60-Ch1>{{citation
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  • Robert Gallucci
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  • Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (missile)
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  • KH-4 CORONA
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  • North American Air Defense Command
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    ...i-aircraft artillery]], as opposed to the more complex German [[V-2]], a [[ballistic missile]] of equal inaccuracy. The supersonic V-2, however, gave no warning of its ...ged V-1 with a nuclear weapon. The [[UGM-27 Polaris]] [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]], a quantum leap in capability, replaced it in the early 1960s.
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  • Counterproliferation
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  • Harold Brown
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  • National Command Authority
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  • Marshall Islands
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  • Ohio-class/Catalogs
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  • Harold Macmillan
    ...he had agreed to base sixty US-built [[PGM-17 Thor]] [[intermediate range ballistic missile]]s in Britain under joint control, and since late 1957 the American [[McMah
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  • Dino Brugioni
    ...s found visual evidence of the placement of Soviet [[SS-4]] [[Medium-range ballistic missile |Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM)]], capable of hitting targets, in t
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  • U.S. Navy procurement
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  • Strategic strike
    ...hicles (MIRV), low-altitude penetrating bombers) as well as defense (e.g., ballistic missile defense and mobile missiles), the Triad remains the basic strategic model a
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  • Counter-rocket, artillery and mortar
    ...s to have separate systems of surface-to-air missiles against aircraft and ballistic missile defense systems against short-range ballistic missiles.
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  • Electro-optical MASINT
    ...ssile tracking|Long-range missile tracking for the use of these sensors in ballistic missile defense. ...RA BALL system now has the potential to significantly assist theater-based ballistic missile defense, by giving detailed tracking after launch. Similar sensors may be m
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  • Proliferation
    ...lear power. A country that builds a [[space launch vehicle]] can build a [[ballistic missile]]. Bioengineering technologies can be useful in medicine or in creating [[b
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  • Robert McNamara
    ...dened underground silos, and essentially undetectable [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]s. This deterrent may, indeed, have restrained the Soviets during the 196
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  • Frank Carlucci
    ...], recommended approval. Reagan found unacceptable the reduced levels of [[ballistic missile defense]], and Carlucci worked out a budget compromise with Congress. As a firm supporter of [[ballistic missile defense]], Carlucci opposed negotiations on arms control that might limit U
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  • Royal Navy
    ...carrier]]s, and replacements for the current [[ballistic missile submarine|ballistic missile]] and [[attack submarine]]s.
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  • Aerospace engineering
    ...On [[October 3]] the first successful test launch of the German [[V-2]] [[ballistic missile]], at [[Peenemunde]] in Germany. This was probably the first self propelled ** On September 8th, the world's first successful ballistic missile (V-2, launched by [[Germany]]) hits its target for the first time, [[Chiswi
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  • F-15 Eagle
    ...upgraded. If the NCADE missile, in active testing as an air-launched anti-ballistic missile, with other long-range intercept roles, this might provide a role for F-15'
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  • Compartmented control system/Signed Articles/Howard Berkowitz
    ...from my group was a vaulted set of offices that handled submarine launched ballistic missile targeting. Technically, that's not SCI, because it's not intelligence, but
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  • Integrated air defense system
    ...n" airborne radar that can detect low-flying aircraft and cruise missiles, ballistic missile acquisition radar, missile fire control radar, ground- and air-based radar Ballistic missile defense can have many layers. Israel is exploring acquiring the very long r
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  • Suppression of enemy air defense
    ...orm, air defense facilities were attacked with the MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missile, using cluster submunitions. These Army assets were most commonly used to e | title = Hunter Killer drone target Ballistic Missile Launchers
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  • Art Lundahl
    ..., found visual evidence of the placement of Soviet [[SS-4]] [[Medium range ballistic missile |Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM)]], capable of hitting targets, in t
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  • RC-135 RIVET JOINT
    ...rcraft, which have a more MASINT emphasis, focused on test and operational ballistic missile launch. This will allow a RIVET JOINT aircraft to be reconfigured as a COBR
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  • U-2 Dragon Lady
    ...ncis Gary Powers, launched Peshawar, was to overfly two [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] test sites, and land in Norway.
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  • Laura Ingraham
    ...then America to defend our homeland and fully fund an operational, layered ballistic missile defense|missile-defense system
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  • Cuban Missile Crisis
    ...early 1962, an Air Force squadron of 15 [[PGM-19 Jupiter]] [[medium range ballistic missile]]s (MRBM) became operational in Turkey; two squadrons were deployed in Ital
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  • Multiple rocket launcher
    ...tain either six 227mm rockets, or one MGM-140 ATACMS short to medium range ballistic missile.
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  • R. James Woolsey
    ...National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commissio
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  • The Antagonists (Haggard novel)
    ...t expert in microwaves, which have become vital in the development of anti-ballistic missile defenses. It is a political decision: there are mounting tensions within hi
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  • Outer space
    ...velocity]] from Earth. "Space launch vehicle" excludes weapons, such as [[ballistic missile]]s, whose trajectory goes through outer space, but does not achieve orbit.
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  • B-52 Superfortress
    ...y the coming of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missile that would give only minutes to launch, the Strategic Air Command put one-t
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  • Edward Teller
    ...onald Reagan|Reagan]]'s [[Strategic Defensive Initiative]] ("Star Wars") [[ballistic missile defense]] program. During the [[Joseph McCarthy|McCarthy]] era he alienated ...posed the 1963 Test-Ban Treaty, [[SALT I]] and [[SALT II]], and the [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]].<ref name="Brown and May">Harold Brown and Michael May, "[http://a
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  • Quadrennial Defense Review
    ...a wide range of partner navies. The rapid growth in sea- and land-based [[ballistic missile defense]] capabilities will help meet the needs of combatant commanders and ...sers, [[Burke-class]] and [[Zumwalt-class]] destroyers), including 21 – 32 ballistic missile defense-capable combatants and Aegis Ashore; the followon CGX cruiser progr
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  • Donald Rumsfeld
    ...y of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld chaired the bipartisan Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States<ref name=BMTC />, in 1998, and the U.S. Commiss ...tral Intelligence Agency. In 1998, he chaired the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, which took the position that the intelligence
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  • March RA
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  • Cruiser
    ...a given that new-generation U.S. cruisers will have a significant theater ballistic missile defense role. Nevertheless, any AEGIS ship, which can take the [[SPY-2|AN/S ...uise missile or the same [[UGM-27 Polaris]] used as a [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]. No surface ship, however, was ever fitted with either of these deep-stri
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  • March Metadata
    * [[Template:Intercontinental ballistic missile/Metadata]] * [[Template:Submarine-launched ballistic missile/Metadata]]
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  • State of Israel
    ...some mutual development programs, such as the [[Arrow (missile)|Arrow anti-ballistic missile]], but more controversy about the strategic relationship.
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  • Unidentified flying object/Catalogs
    When the AN/[[FPS-50]] early warning radar, part of the [[Ballistic Missile Early Warning System]] (BMEWS), went into service in 1960, it soon reported
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  • March Definitions
    * [[Submarine-launched ballistic missile/Definition]]
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  • United States Joint Forces Command
    ...r bases, threats still remain. How, for example, should long-range theater ballistic missile integrate the systems of the Army (air defense artillery), Navy and Air For
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  • Single Integrated Operational Plan
    ...offer non-nuclear alternatives. The kinetic energy of an intercontinental ballistic missile atmospheric reentry#warhead|warhead, filled with inert material, may be suf ...lso concerned with the short warning times available from intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches, which took away the lengthy decision time available when t
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  • Pakistani Security Forces
    Pakistan's Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) is responsible for [[ballistic missile]]. <ref name=GS-Army>{{citation
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  • U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities
    ...ology Control Regime]] (MCTR), the [[International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation]] (ICOC), and the United Nations Convention on Certain Conven ...efense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] became convinced in the course of his work on ballistic missile proliferation before he took office that adequate intelligence on WMD progr
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  • Iraq War, origins of invasion
    ...rstanding of Bush's priorities, from reading his campaign statements, were ballistic missile defense|national missile defense and Iraq. Bush said that was correct. Clin
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  • Melvin Bell
    ...uring his career there he worked with both the [[Polaris]] and [[Trident]] ballistic missile programs.
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  • World War II, air war, Mediterranean and European tactical operations
    ...Germany introduced the first [[cruise missile]], the [V-1] and the first [[ballistic missile]], the [[V-2]]. Japan introduced the first guided, sea-skimming [[anti-ship
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  • History of the U.S. Navy
    ...ar deterrent lurked under the sea, in the form of virtually undetectable [[ballistic missile submarine]]s. ...eading five times as many men. Other analysts pointed out that a single [[ballistic missile submarine]] could deliver more explosive power than all the weapons used in
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  • Jesse Helms
    ...9 and in 2000 doomed any prospect for ratification of a modified 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. He told U.S. Capitol Historical Society in 1998:
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  • Greenpeace/Signed Articles/Eduzendium
    ...luding the largest underground test in U.S. history, the W71 warhead]] for ballistic missile defense.
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  • Signals intelligence collection, aircraft-based
    ...[RC-135 COBRA BALL]] MASINT aircraft in increasing demand for monitoring [[ballistic missile]] launches. [[RC-135 COMBAT SENT]] aircraft are ELINT platform targeted aga
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  • Destroyer
    ...(and tracked farther away), and even may "shoot a bullet with a bullet" in ballistic missile defense, the small boys have grown up.<ref name=Marfiak2008>{{citation
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  • Cold War/Bibliography
    * Spinardi, Graham. ''From Polaris to Trident: The Development of U.S. Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology.'' Cambridge U. Press, 1994. 253 pp.
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  • Space Race
    ...travel applied equally well to wartime rockets such as [[Intercontinental ballistic missile]]s (ICBMs). Along with other aspects of the arms race, progress in space ap }}</ref> In early 2007 China launched a ballistic missile to destroy a satellite, frustrating international observers as this had vio
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  • U.S. intelligence activities in Iran
    ...ved version of its 1,300 km range Shahab-3 (missile)|Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM), to add to the hundreds of short-range SCUD missiles it already has.
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  • Democracy promotion
    ...r | year =2000}}, pp. 14-17</ref> emphasized military power projection and ballistic missile defense, while it was the editorial policy of the ''Weekly Standard'', duri
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  • Reagan Doctrine
    ...war. Also around the time Reagan announced the beginning of a program of [[ballistic missile defense]] systems, known as the "Strategic Defense Initiative", or, popular
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  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
    ...cuation became the new approach, but with the advent of [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s and the short warning time, shelters again became the approach of the si
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  • Cold War
    ...n 1972 that slowed the tempo of the nuclear arms race, and prohibited anti-ballistic missile systems that might frustrate the mutual deterrence represented by the thous
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  • Naval guns and gunnery
    ...ment system]] is one such complex that supports [[anti-air warfare]] and [[ballistic missile defense]], as well as [[land attack]].
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
    ...if they could, and succeeded with a modified Jupiter [[intermediate range ballistic missile]]. ...ets could launch a satellite did not necessarily mean they had operational ballistic missile technology, but it was obvious that their rocket technology was more advanc
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  • U.S. House Armed Services Committee
    {{main|Ballistic missile defense}} ...its deployed forces, and its friends and allies against the full range of ballistic missile threats. The committee will focus on several key areas including: the fut
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  • Kamehameha I/Citable Version
    ...is named the "Spirit of Kamehameha", while a [[Benjamin Franklin-class]] [[ballistic missile submarine]], launched in 1965 and decommissioned in 2002, was christened th
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  • Kamehameha I
    ...is named the "Spirit of Kamehameha", while a [[Benjamin Franklin-class]] [[ballistic missile submarine]], launched in 1965 and decommissioned in 2002, was christened th
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  • George H. W. Bush
    ...arply cut the military budget, while continuing long-range research into [[ballistic missile defense]].
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  • U.S. intelligence activities in Asia-Pacific
    ...= North Korea's Ballistic Missile Program, CNS Resources on North Korea's Ballistic Missile Program, Chronology of North Korea's Missile Trade and Developments: 1996-1
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  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    ...d as the father of the United States space program. Elements of the [[Army Ballistic Missile Agency]] (of which von Braun's team was a part) and the [[U.S. Naval Resear
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  • Richard Perle
    ...ington (U.S. state)|WA) (1969-1980), focusing on promoting the "Star Wars" ballistic missile defense legislation. This diverted him from finishing his dissertation. He
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  • Central Intelligence Agency
    ...aled that the Soviets had far fewer bombers and (later) [[intercontinental ballistic missile|ICBMs]] than the Pentagon expected. The worst-case estimates of the U.S. Ai
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  • Luftwaffe
    ...vative [[V-1]] jet-powered [[cruise missile]] and [[V-2]] rocket-powered [[ballistic missile]] were wasted from a military point of view; their guidance was too inaccur
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  • Intelligence analysis
    ...Union, there was an almost unanimous belief that large numbers of Russian ballistic missile specialists would flood into the Third World and aid missile programs in ot
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  • Director of Central Intelligence
    Raborn, a distinguished naval officer who directed the creation of ballistic missile submarines, had a short and unhappy tenure as DCI. His background included
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  • U.S. intelligence activities in Iraq
    ...e-to-air missile project, which yielded intelligence on the Soviet Union's ballistic missile program.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gibson|first=Bryan R.|title=Sold Out? US Fore
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  • United Kingdom
    ...ries to do so, using the submarine-based [[UGM-133 Trident D5|Trident II]] ballistic missile system with nuclear warheads. These [[Vanguard-class|Vanguard class submari
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  • Hitler as military leader
    ...ffense, committed a major production effort to the [[V-2]], a medium range ballistic missile. Each V-2 weighed thirteen tons; he wanted 900 produced each month. Each
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  • Geophysical MASINT
    ...[James Martin Stagg]]. It is rarely understood that something as fast as a ballistic missile reentry vehicle, or as "smart" as a [[precision guided munition]], can stil
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  • Life extension
    ...may be mounted against him. In the end, the dragon-tyrant is killed by a [[ballistic missile]] launched from the valley, but not before a billion people die unnecessari
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