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The Determination of Shock Accelerations on a Small Nuclear Power Plant Structural Elements When Falling to the Surface

open access: yesГлобальная ядерная безопасность, 2022
The article conducts research one of the expansion phase of emergency with an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, accompanied by an carrier explosion, an ejection of the reentry vehicle from a silo and its subsequent fall. The simulation of the collision
O. A. Gubeladze, A. R. Gubeladze
doaj   +1 more source

The Development of the US National Missile Defense and its Impact on the International Security

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015
The article reflects the US officials' point of view on the development of its national missile defense. The major threat to international security is the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
J. Yu. Parshkova
doaj   +5 more sources

Engineering of the Highest Caliber: Kazimierz Siemienowicz and the Culmination of the Military Revolution

open access: yesStudia Historiae Scientiarum, 2022
The interregnum between the death of Galileo and the publication of Newton’s Principia produced great advances in military science and technology.
Paul Wlodkowski
doaj   +1 more source

Boost-Phase Defense Against Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [PDF]

open access: yesPhysics Today, 2004
An American Physical Society study concludes that disabling ICBMs before they release their munitions would be very difficult at best and, in some cases, impractical.
Daniel Kleppner   +2 more
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Ballistic Missile Defense and the Atlantic Alliance [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
The Atlantic Alliance may be at the threshold of a new debate on the implications of ballistic missile defense (BMD) for European security. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and several U.S. Senators and Congressmen support a thorough review of U.S.
Yost, David S.
core   +1 more source

The Peculiarities of the National Missile Defense

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018
The  view  of  both  Moscow and Washington on ballistic missile defense (BMD) for a long time rested on the principle, formulated in the late 1960s, which held that anti-missile systems for defense of the territories were destabilizing, therefore ...
A. G. Arbatov
doaj   +1 more source

Nuclear U.S. and Soviet/Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1959-2008 [PDF]

open access: yesBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2009
Recent research exposes the fallacies that helped to drive missile stockpiles to astronomical levels, making Russia’s persistently slow reduction of deployed missiles all the more inexcusable.
Robert S. Norris, Hans M. Kristensen
openaire   +1 more source

Creation, Use and Evolution of Test Silo Launchers for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles at Plesetsk Proving Ground (1960s – 1990s)

open access: yesВестник Северного (Арктического) федерального университета: Серия «Гуманитарные и социальные науки»
The article attempts to reconstruct the process of formation of the experimental test facility for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at the 53rd Research Proving Ground of the USSR Ministry of Defence in the 1960s – 1990s.
Roman S. Klimov, Aleksandr V. Tolochko
doaj   +1 more source

The Continuing Quest for Missile Defense: When Lofty Goals Confront Reality

open access: yes, 2018
For almost three quarters of a century, the United States has spent billions of dollars and countless person-hours in the pursuit of a national missile defense system that would protect the country from intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) carrying
Pella, Peter J.
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Space and the Atom: On the Popular Geopolitics of Cold War Rocketry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper considers the imbricated domains of space exploration and Cold War geopolitics by following the trajectory of the 'Corporal', the world's first guided missile authorised to carry a nuclear warhead.
MacDonald, Fraser
core   +1 more source

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