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Comparison of basing modes for land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles

AIP Conference Proceedings, 1988
Intercontinental ballistic missiles based in silos have become relatively vulnerable, at least in theory, to counter‐force attacks. This theoretical vulnerability may not, in fact, be a serious practical concern; it is nonetheless troubling both to policy‐makers and to the public.
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Conventional Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - New Weapon, New World

2000
Abstract : The U.S. Air Force is developing technology to place a variety of non-nuclear weapon payloads on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). These conventional ballistic missiles (CBM) would provide indirect fire with a quick reaction capability on fixed and potentially mobile targets.
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The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and Post Cold War Deterrence

2010
Abstract : Reviews the relevance of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile with regard to Post Cold War deterrence with regard to military and political utility.
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Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956-1983

2006
This dissertation discusses a gap within American technology history in the form of ICBMs.
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The Atlas and the Air Force: Reassessing the Beginnings of America's First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

Technology and Culture, 2013
In March 1954, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) decided to move ahead with the development of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), a central weapon of the cold war. The advent of thermonuclear weapons with their vastly enhanced firepower and small size caused experts and policymakers in the United States military to proceed with the development of ...
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PA-2: Programmatic Agreement Among the United States Air Force, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the California State Historic Preservation Office for the Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and Peacekeeper in Rail Garrison Test Facilities Project at Vandenberg Air Force Base

1988
This document is a programmatic agreement (PA) among the United States Air Force, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the California State Historic Preservation Office regarding the project to construct a Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and Peacekeeper in Rail Garrison test facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), California Office Of Historic Preservation, Advisory Council On Historic Preservation   +2 more
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The United States Air Force and the emergence of the intercontinental ballistic missile, 1945 - 1954

2011
In March 1954, the United States Air Force decided to give a high priority to developing an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). This missile, when armed with nuclear warheads, became the central and defining weapon of the Cold War. Following the political controversy in the United States that resulted from the Soviet Union’s launch in 1957 of ...
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Land-Based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Scientific American, 1979
Bernard T. Feld, Kosta Tsipis
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Advances in coherent magnonics

Nature Reviews Materials, 2021
Philipp Pirro, Vitaliy I Vasyuchka, Alexander A Serga   +2 more
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Operational Improvements to the U.S. Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Enable This Leg of the Strategic Triad to Assume the Role of the U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

1992
Abstract : The submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) force has long been considered the most survivable and enduring of this nation's nuclear triad-- manned bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), and SLBMS. Historically the SLBM leg has depended upon the ICBM to provide the promptness and destructive capability essential to this ...
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