Intercontinental ballistic missile (1957): Sputnik · 447
[446] [read-icbm-14-46] Intercontinental ballistic missile is the record of 1957 under “Sputnik.” The figure to read with it is 10. 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. A name that now means more than 1957-present as a deployed type (V-2 ancestry 1944-45) in From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines,
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 1957, “Sputnik,” and 10. The figure is not a national score.1957
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1957
- Figure in the record
- 10
- Action
- Intercontinental ballistic missile
- Line of the front
- Sputnik
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