Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in his life, Kissinger descended into a 90-ft. silo and gazed at a 75,000-lb. Minuteman III, the newest and largest American ICBM (range: 7,000 miles). After watching a simulated firing in an underground command center, Kissinger emerged and remarked that the world of payloads, throw weight and delivery systems had been largely an "abstraction" to him up until now. Coming face to face with the real thing had clearly been a sobering experience for the onetime Harvard professor who made his reputation with a book entitled Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy...
...widespread installation of anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) systems. Under the terms of the treaty, the U.S. and the Soviets were allowed to erect anti-nuclear-rocket defenses at only two sites-one to protect each country's capital, the other to shield an intercontinental-ballistic-missile (ICBM) launching site. So far, each nation has installed ABMs at only one site. Moscow has been ringed by the Galosh ABMs, while the U.S. has protected its ICBM launchers at Grand Forks...
...treaty also imposed a five-year freeze on the number of offensive nuclear missiles possessed by the two powers. The U.S. was allowed 1,054 ICBMs and 710 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), while the Soviets were permitted 1,618 ICBMs and 950 SLBMS. To critics of the seeming numerical inferiority of the U.S., American officials replied that the U.S. actually retained superiority. Because of highly sophisticated, miniature computer-directed guidance systems, the U.S. has the capability of placing clusters of individually guided warheads on each ICBM. These MIRVS (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles) contribute to the enormous...
...fans in Hamilton haven't had an awful lot to cheer about, except perhaps Colgate's first line, which is comprised of a freshman, sophomore and a junior. They call it the ICBM Line. The "C" stands for Cyr, Joey, the freshman right winger. The "B" is for Barnett, John, the sophomore center, and finally the "M" is the first letter of Mirabelli, Rick, the junior left winger...
...million for advanced ICBM technology. Included in it is money for a new nuclear warhead called MaRV (for maneuverable re-entry vehicle) that could change direction in flight?something no country's ICBMS do now?to evade defensive missiles. It also would be more accurate than any existing Minuteman warhead...