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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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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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Air Force Space Command Inspection Checklist 10-8. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Emergency War Order (EWO) Plans (WING, ORI)

2000
Abstract : This checklist has been revised to update references and inspection philosophy. A bar (\) indicates a revision from the previous edition. References are provided for each item. Critical items have been kept to a minimum and are related to public law, safety, security, fiscal responsibility, and/or mission accomplishment.
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SAC (Strategic Air Command) Needs a Few Good Men and Women' - A Guide to ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) Operations Duty

1988
Abstract : This handbook provides information on the Missile Operations career fields for prospective ICBM launch officers. The handbook contains information on why prospective missileers might want to enter the career field, what missile duty is, career progression, follow-on assignments, initial entry requirements, training, and evaluations.
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VAFB-1987-04: Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Test Areas, San Antonio Terrace, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

1987
A cultural resources survey and archival study of areas on VAFB proposed for expansion of testing facilities for Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison programs was conducted. Eighteen archaeological sites were identified during the survey of approximately 1100 acres. This brings to 39 the total number of sites known
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Intruder detection and interdiction modeling: A bilevel programming approach for ballistic missile defense asset location

Omega, 2022
Adam Haywood, Brian J Lunday, Matthew J Robbins   +2 more
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US Air Force to study nuclear missile base lymphomas

Lancet Oncology, The, 2023
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