Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first to develop and deploy MIRVs (a breakthrough some of its own authors now regret), but the single most destabilizing development in the recent round of military competition between the superpowers was the seemingly open-ended acquisition of more and more MIRVed iCBMs by the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces from...
...Soviets fire off other missiles. But again and again, the killer beam appears almost miraculously out of the skies, destroying one rocket after another. The Kremlin is so frustrated that it calls off its multimegaton attack...
...government in the world would tolerate such a massive arms buildup as the PLO engaged in Southern Lebanon. That these weapons might never have been used against Israel is irrelevant. The mere threat they posed, along with repeated PLO rocket attacks and terrorist incursions, caused a massive depopulation of northern Israeli border towns. Farouk Kaddowni of the PLO called this psychological warfare, one way (albeit in stages) to "liberate Palestine...
...apiece, but design changes began almost as soon as the weapon was proposed. The weight, it was decided, must be reduced to less than seven pounds This meant the warhead had to weigh less than a pound, which sharply limited its potential destructive power. The size of the rocket motor was also reduced to cut blast noise. By the time the contractor finished redesigning it, the Vipers cost not $75, but $787 apiece. Worse yet, the scaled-down warhead could no longer penetrate the front armor of modern battle tanks nor stop Soviet tanks headon. The Kafkaesque solution...
...space shuttle Challenger. Standing forlornly on its Florida pad since Nov. 30, the gleaming $1 billion orbiter will probably not be launched before mid-March at the earliest, two months late. Reason: a hazardous hydrogen leak required the removal last week of one of Challenger's three main rocket engines, a task never before attempted while a shuttle was still...