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    of victory. The cruise missile is the latest in a line of technologies which decidedly changed the conduct of maritime warfare. This technology dramatically shifted the role of naval forces in both the land and maritime engagements, and expanded the naval battlefield to unforeseen distances and locales. Thus, impacting the way the United States Navy has approached strategy, tactics, and inter-service relations. Strategy The cruise missile has allowed the United States

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    Patriot Missile Crisis

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    Intro Ballistic missile defense became a necessity after World War II when Germany developed and launched several missiles at targets around Europe. During the Cold War, the United States and Russia began developing technologies to build and use long range missiles at a moment's notice. Before the Gulf War and Desert Storm there were no systems to defend against theater ballistic missiles or TBM’s. The Patriot missile system had been developed in the 1970’s to counter threats from enemy aircrafts

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    Missile Crisis

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    school and having your teacher yell instructions to hide under your desk because of a possible missile attack, not knowing if you’ll see tomorrow. This possible scenario is what children feared in late 1962. The uncertainty of life during this time and the actions taken by teachers and students intrigue me, like how they thought that a thin piece of wood and metal would save them from an atomic missile. In reality, nothing, including themselves, would be left standing. In October 1962, off the

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    Missile Defense Systems: Risks and Benefits November 5, 2015 Jiung Choi 301149194 jiungc@sfu.ca The missile defense system (MDS) provides a sort of protective shield against any possible missile attacks. Our generation is living in a world where a mass destruction is unavoidable. Technology has gotten overly advanced that a single nuclear missile could destroy a small nation and instantly kill millions of people. Therefore, missile defense system could play an important role in limiting damage and

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    Tuban Missile Crisis

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    the cuban missile crisis this was the closet both countries came to having an all out nuclear war. Destruction was feared the most for the 13 days it took place. After the failed attempt at attacking cuba known as the bay of pigs, cuba asked for help from the ussr and they happily agreed. They secretly set up nuclear missiles in cuba to protect cuba and the soviet union took it as an advantage. On october 14, 1962 a U-2 spy plane was flying over Cuba and discovered a medium range missile being assembled

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

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    the CIA calls denial and deception tactics, or D&D) ensures that the Soviet intentions and strategies are well cloaked. This was true during the Cuban Missile Crisis. By the time Kennedy got the intelligence reports showing the reconnaissance photographs from the Soviet installations in Cuba, the President publically "proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly," ("Revelations from the Russian Archives

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

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    and preparing an attack that nobody even know. Topic Sentence: The Cuban missile was a crazy time. It happened some fifty years ago when John F. Kennedy was president. It was when one of U.S. spy plane caught Soviet Union trying to sneak some nuclear missiles into Cuba that was ninety miles off the United States’ coast. Soon enough president Kennedy had to talk to one of their leaders about what are they doing with the missiles and if they do not remove it

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

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    1.0 Plan Of Investigation The purpose of this investigation is to establish the extent to which there was a victor at the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. This investigation will evaluate the position of both Khrushchev and Kennedy after the crisis in order to draw the victor. Looking into the intentions and goals of USA and the USSR leading up to, during, and recently after the crisis to determine the true victor, in between the years 1959 and 1979. Sources that will be used in this investigation

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    Castro, to place missiles in Cuba to prevent any invasion attempts. The missiles could launch over 1,000 miles and take the lives of approximately 80 million Americans. After U-2 spy planes discovered the missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy ordered a secret emergency meeting with his senior military, political, and diplomatic advisers. But to protect the U.S. from destruction, President Kennedy had two decisions to make. He either had to

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

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    The Cuban missile Crisis began in October 1962, when the US discovered Soviet missiles were being stored in Cuba, finding these missiles meant the US & the Soviet Union were on the verge of a Nuclear War. In the lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US governments’ intention was to have Castro overthrown. However Castro had both the political & military support of the Soviet Union and started receiving secret shipments of Soviet arms. On the 14th October 1962 during a routine mission over Cuba

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