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Strategic arms limitation treaties
STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TREATIES Coming on the heels of the 1968 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the two components of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties (SALT) represented a willingness by the United States and the Soviet Union to constrain an arms race that both recognized was... Read more |
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Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), U.S. government program responsible for research and development of a space-based system to defend the nation from attack by strategic ballistic missiles (see guided missile ). The program is now administered by the Missile Defense Agency (originally the... Read more |
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Henry Way Kendall
Henry Way Kendall 1926-99, American physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor for a series of experiments (1967-73) that showed that the fundamental particles of matter are not protons... Read more |
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Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
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Looking Glass
Looking Glass Looking Glass is the nickname for the Airborne Command Post, which was implemented by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War to ensure that operations would continue in the event that the primary strategic command centers were rendered... Read more |
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START I Treaty
START I Treaty ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, now known as START I, was one of the key weapons agreements forged during the détente period of the late Cold War era. Negotiations for strategic weapon reductions of the United States and Soviet... Read more |
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Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff
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Paul Henry Nitze
Paul Henry Nitze , 1907-2004, American public official, b. Amherst, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1927. After working in investment banking, he entered government service in 1940 and served in a variety of posts, including that of vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (1944-46). As head of... Read more |
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Confederate Navy
Confederate Navy. Confederate navy secretary Stephen R. Mallory of Florida, who had chaired the U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee, assessed his navy's ten ships and fifteen guns in 1861: “The Union have a navy; we have a navy to construct.” That construction would take place in a... Read more |
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