Intercontinental ballistic missile

The United States faces several national security challenges. For one, it has seemingly lost its leadership role in space activities. Other countries, such as China, are ramping up investments in space, while “NASA’s budget is at a historic low as a share of the overall federal budget.” Return on investments in space technology has benefitted the civilian space program and the military alike. U.S. military operations and intelligence collection rely on space systems and “access to these capabilities

Should the U.S. build a National Missile Defense System? “What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security didn’t depend upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter an enemy attack?” Ronald Reagan; 1983 In his speech of March 23, 1983, President Reagan presented his vision of a future where a Nation’s security did not rest upon the threat of nuclear retaliation, but on the ability to protect and defend against such attacks. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

The National Missile Defense System is the First Step to Another Cold War and the United States Should Not Do It As we begin the twenty-first century, an increasing number of states around the world are acquiring nuclear capabilities. The sense of insecurity by individual governments is driving many states into developing and testing ballistic missiles. In the mean time, the United States finds itself in a position to develop new technology that will protect themselves against these potential

faced with the facts that the D.P.R.K or in other words North Korea, can and may launch a ballistic missile at their homeland. North Korea has been in the missile making business for about five and a half decades, and working frantically to develop an ICBM or intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the mainland of the United States. The D.P.R.K’s main goal is to continue testing and finally launch a missile at the United States. This can be tracked down to the time of Kim Il Sung, and Soviet

Cold War introduced new threats that would change the way air defense would engage and defeat the enemy in the future. Air Defense Artillery introduced the guided missile which allowed the Army to specialize and take their combat experience developed in Vietnam into the Nike missile variants which proved invaluable during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the cold war, ultimately allowing great soldiers like SGT

The Missile Defense System of the United States Abstract      When Ronald Reagan was in the Presidency, he and his staff came up with the idea for a missile defense system that would defend the country in the event of a nuclear missile attack. This system was named "Star Wars" and the basic principal behind it was that it would be a shield that covered all fifty states. However, government officials soon realized that Reagan's defense system was impossible to build, so the program was dropped,

territory to appearing on virtually every continent. Ballistic Missiles have had a long history dating back to 1939 and the beginning of the V-Weapons program, and have been around in one way or another for over 70 years, indeed the advent of modern missile technology has changed the face of modern warfare and politics, and coupled with the advent of the two-stage hydrogen bomb, they have now brought humanity the closest to another World-War. Ballistic missile development, proliferation, and usage have had

“Happy Birthday!” It was October 2, 1957 and the day I became a teenager. I didn’t have much of a worry in the world and really only cared if the surf was up and whether my favorite song, “All Shook Up” by Elvis Presley would become a gold record. Little did I know, but it would be a day that would change my life and world. It would be infamously known as the day the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik. Looking back, I realize it not only scripted my mentality but America’s mentality for

success until the trinity of rational development, organizational integration, and critical actors operated in harmony with a corresponding crisis to propel the cause to a level of national importance. There were multiple crises with respect to the US missile program, and each of those crises provided significant stimulation to advance the cause. The first crisis arose in late WWII when the US realized it was significantly behind in technology in the jet and rocket propulsion field. Henry Arnold placed

Polymers have been changing the way we live for over 100 years. Their availability and diverse qualities ensure that they are always in high demand, and new polymers are always being discovered. Where does this leave the now commonplace polymers which once were ubiquitous in commerce? Polymers such as polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride (Bakelite) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) were first synthesised in 1907 and 1938 respectively, making them old by polymer standards. Although the original polymer