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Intercontinental ballistic missile : SALT I, 1972

[442] [read-icbm-10-42] Intercontinental ballistic missile is the record of under “SALT I, 1972.” The figure to read with it is 1972. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. Theatre: From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, subm.

A rocket that became a treaty subject The ICBM is less a battlefield weapon than a diplomatic fact: flight tests, false alarms, and numbered limits on paper. Peenemunde, Mittelbau-Dora slave labour, and the 1945 scramble for teams and drawings are the unethical start. Korolev's R-7 was a missile that could also throw a satellite -- politics in a first stage.

No propulsion or re-entry cookbook belongs here. The sentence is: a 1944 city-attack rocket became a 1957 intercontinental type. SAC under LeMay and later Schriever's missileers built a US land leg. The Strategic Rocket Forces became a Soviet service. October 1962 put medium-range missiles in Cuba and ICBM alert in the background of thirteen days.

McNamara's "assured destruction" language is a dated staff dialect, not a present targeting brief. SALT I (1972), the ABM Treaty, SALT II (signed 1979, unratified), INF (1987), START I (1991), and New START (2010, extended 2021) are the ICBM's political battles. Cheating scandals and verification trains are part of that file.

Say Intercontinental ballistic missile with , “SALT I, 1972,” and 1972. The figure is not a national score.1972

Figures to keep

Year of the action
1972
Figure in the record
1972
Action
Intercontinental ballistic missile
Line of the front
SALT I, 1972

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