Intercontinental ballistic missile

Post-WWII. After WWII most LP R D shifted from Germany to the USA and the USSR. Technical progress since 1945 in LP for rockets can be characterized by a host of minor improvements rather than major advances, and some spectacular applications of LP in rockets for military use and for space exploration, eg, in ICBM s (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles) and in USA USSR Moon, Mars Venus shots . Thus the major developments since WWII have been primarily in the application of existing, though improved, propulsion systems to such highly publicized rockets as Sputnik, Vanguard, Soyuz, Saturn, Vostok, Apollo, Explorer, etc... 

Economics and politics also intersected in Whitehall s perception in 1956 of the Soviet Union as a threat to Britain s share of international trade. In May of that year, when arguing that Britain could not afford a policy of perfection in defence, Eden noted that there was evidence that the Russians intended to concentrate on industrial exports. In order to be able to meet this competition, part of the burden placed on British industry by defence orders must be reduced, so as to release resources for civil production. In present circumstances, he said, economic failure was a more serious risk than global war, and defence plans had to be adjusted to this revised political assessment. He added that a recent report from the ambassador in Washington showed that President Eisenhower was thinking along the same lines.The Russians made no secret of their intentions. In November 1957 Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, declared in a visit to the United States in the peaceful field of trade we declare a war. The threat to the United States is not in the intercontinental ballistic missile but in the field of peaceful production. We are relentless in this and will prove the superiority of our system. ... 

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The advent of the space age, the testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles, the use of space probes, the existence of radiation belts in outer space, and the increasing utilization of military and civilian satellites have triggered further studies on the effects of nuclear radiation on all types of materials, including expls, propints, pyrots and related materials. Nuclear radiation effects studies range from steady-state to transient environments, from ground zero to upper atmosphere levels and from underground nuclear tests to simulation techniques in the laboratory which in turn cover all phases of vulnerability and survivability... 

The special needs of the space program motivated the search for composite materials for other reasons also. For example, during tests of the first Atlas ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), engineers were concerned that the rocket s metallic components would not survive the missile s reentry into the atmosphere they feared it would melt down because of the intense heat to which it was exposed. By the late 1950s, therefore, aerospace researchers had begun to look for satisfactory substitutes for metal alloys for such applications. With that research, the modern held of composite design was horn. One of the first composites tested consisted of pieces of glass embedded in melamine, purported to be the first composite material developed for aerospace applications. 

After the war Hercules returned to the production of commercial explosives as well as military propellants and continued to build on its cellulose and naval stores capabilities. In 1958 its explosives department created a chemical propulsion division to develop propellants for missiles and space vehicles. In 1959 it received contracts from the U.S. Air Force to develop new solid-fuel rocket motors and subsequently produced the motor for the third stage of the nation s first solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Minuteman. Hercules played an even larger role in the development of the Navy s submarine-launched Polaris ICBM. With cellulose came new specialties, including synthetic resins and paper chemicals, as well as carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), an intermediate used in the production of foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. From naval stores came other new specialty chemicals and an effective insecticide, toxaphene, and other agricultural chemicals.3... 

Mike Hocker from Poughkeepsie, New York, suggested that the use of atomic weapons on Infinity World would be less of a concern. Mike believes that wars would be common as populations tried to destroy others before they were destroyed. Xenocide and paranoia would be the geopolitical norm. Nations would race to develop interworld ballistic missiles (IWBMs) as opposed to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Vast land areas would be radioactive or devastated by horrendous nuclear, chemical, and biological weaponry. 

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Oddly enough, it was more the concern with unmanned systems, the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), that led to the development of the system safety concept [p. 4]. 

Minuteman was a revolutionary concept and an extraordinary technical achievement. Both the missile and basing components incorporated significant advances beyond the relatively slow-reacting, hquid-fuelled, remotely controlled intercontinental ballistic missiles of the previous generation. 

Most agree that one of the first major formal system safety efforts involved the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program. A series of pre-Minuteman design-related silo accidents probably provided at least part of the incentive (U.S. Air Force 1987). 

An intercontinental ballistic missile (IGBM) can deliver enough nuclear explosives to devastate a city. 

Military systems Intercontinental ballistic missiles computers, inertial guidance systems, and telemetering systems and unmanned drone aircraft. 

Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) The Soviet Union develops the IGBM. 

We evaluate our architecture in the context of a BMD demonstration. In November 2009, MIT Lincoln Laboratory demonstrated a proof-of-concept net-centric BMD decision-support system during the simulation of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) attack [10]. For this exercise, we developed and deployed an illustration-of-concept implementation of om siu vivability architecture. This exercise demonstrated the principles of om siu vivability architecture in a realistic simulation of a coordinated ICBM and cyber attack. Our experience developing this survivabihty architecture taught us several important lessons learned, which we share in this paper. 

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