should be endowed with natural resources‚ particularly energy resources‚ minerals and metals. Such a state should have a strong industrial base backed by technological knowledge and also have strong military capabilities‚ particularly nuclear and missile. The combination of all these ingredients and attributes of the state should be at for higher levels than those of the majority of states in the international community. It is only then that the state can acquire the status of a superpower and be
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Trident is the only nuclear weapon in the United Kingdoms weapons stockpile. It is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that is launched from nuclear powered submarines (SSBN). The United Kingdom has four nuclear submarines armed with the Trident missiles. Each submarine is limited to carrying eight missiles and forty warheads‚ due to the 2010 Strategic Defence Review. The Trident missile was first developed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the United States of America for the Cold War
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evening‚ my fellow citizens: This Government‚ as promised‚ has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week‚ unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. Upon receiving the first preliminary hard information of this nature last
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On December 25‚ 1991‚ the Soviet Union flag lowered for the last time. With the lowering of the flag‚ Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from the post of President. As changes are occurring from Gorbachev’s steady hand‚ people all around the world watched in disbelief as the Soviet Union was split into separate nations peacefully. These changes could not have transpired without the revolution that Gorbachev brought forward. His reform efforts would be the eventual catalyst towards demanded freedom from
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policy and often had good relationships with countries that the United States were not on good terms with. An example of this is Canada and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau‚ and his relationship with Fidel Castro and Cuba. Amidst the Cold War‚ the Cuban Missile Crisis which occurred on October 15th 1962 was the closest the two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. This conflict took place over a course of fourteen days‚ and was the peak of the Cold War‚ because during
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Make beautiful charts :- 1. Glimpses of the 2012 2. Healthy and Junk Food 3. 3R’s - Reduce‚ Refuse and Recycle New Delhi: The year 2012 was full of numerous major events in the fields of politics‚ business‚ cinema and sports which shaped the outgoing year and grabbed a lot of public attention. At home‚ we saw many important happenings like UPA’s trouble shooter Pranab Mukherjee’s election as thePresident of the Indian Republic‚ surfacing of a string of scams dealing severe blow to the credibility
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Throughout all of American history there have been many events that occurred that mark an important turning point‚ they vary what they influence. One major turning point in space exploration was the first launching of a satellite in 1957. The satellites name was Sputnik. All that could be heard from the artificial satellite was just a series of rhythmic “beeps” on October 4‚ 1957. Those short beeps came from the first satellite to be launched into space as it passed overhead. Sputnik was a small
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JFK Saved the Day President John F. Kennedy was faced with tough decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many of his advisors advocated a military assault on Cuba. With the power of hindsight‚ we now know that any type of invasion would have led to Cubans retaliating with ready short range nuclear weapons. The theory of brinksmanship and MAD (mutually assured destruction) did not seem to discourage or dissuade the Cubans‚ particularly Castro. JFK’s decision to merely blockade Cuba and seek diplomatic
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demonstrated. Long range ballistic missile A-4 developed. End of WW2‚ Braun and the entire German rocket-development team surrendered to US troops and was taken to the US as part of Operation Paperclip. (500 people‚ along with plans and test vehicles). Tested assembled and supervised launching of captured V-2s at US Army ordinance crops test site in New Mexico. 1952‚ Moved to Alabama and became technical director of US army intermediate range ballistic-weapon (IRBM) program. Developed
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present day ballistic missiles are all guided using the global positioning system or GPS.GPS uses satellites as instruments for sending signals to the missile during flight and to guide it to the target. SATRACK is a system that was developed to provide an evaluation methodology for the guidance system of the ballistic missiles. This was developed as a comprehensive test and evaluation program to validate the integrated weapons system design for nuclear powered submarines launched ballistic missiles
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