Niven was an adviser to Ronald Reagan on the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative anti missile policy, as covered in the BBC documentary Pandora's Box by Adam Curtis.

By 1958, roughly four years after Schriever had initiated his ballistic missile program, SAC activated the 704th Strategic Missile Wing to operate first the intermediate range Thor missile and then a year later the first true ICBM, the Atlas missile.

By 1987, the SDIO had developed a national missile defense concept called the Strategic Defense System Phase I Architecture.

During a secret live fire exercise of a nuclear attack, many United States Air Force Strategic Missile Wing missileers prove unwilling to turn a required key to launch a missile strike.

The first was the Strategic Defense Initiative or " Star Wars ": " Star wars raised the terrible prospect that there might be an effective means of neutralising the inter-continental ballistic missile, whereby the two great giants who held what had become to be seen as the balance of terror would contract out of the game altogether: the deterrent would be switched off by the invulnerability of the two providers of the mutual terror ".

* Ronald Reagan, whose persona mutated from a bumbling, heavily stage-managed actor into a senile yet dangerous robot with a missile like pointed head, including being deployed in space as a component of the Strategic Defense Initiative.

In 1984, as a result of the first series of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties START I between the United States and the Soviet Union, SAC began to decommission its Titan II missile system.

He raised the proportion of Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) strategic bombers on 15-minute ground alert from 25 % to 50 %, thus lessening their vulnerability to missile attack.

The next month, the first missile to be removed from an operational unit and sent to Vandenberg AFB for confidence firing arrived from a Thor IRBM squadron ( 98th RAF Strategic Missile Squadron ) in the United Kingdom.

The first intercontinental ballistic missile, the SM-65D Atlas ICBM, was delivered and was accepted by SAC's 576th Strategic Missile Squadron on 18 February 1959.

As a result, the Titan I ICBM launch complex ( 395-A1 / A2 / A3 ) at Vandenberg was turned over to the Strategic Air Command 395th Strategic Missile Squadron to perform test launches of the missile.

As a result of this action, the entire Minuteman missile combat training, from beginning ( initial training ) to end ( upgrade training ) became the responsibility of Strategic Air Command.

On September 17, Col. Paul Calton, Commander of Beale's 4126th Strategic Wing, announced that the base would be the fifth HGM-25A Titan I missile installation.

At various times McConnell Air Force Base hosted the 381st Strategic Missile Wing that controlled various Titan missile silos around Wichita, the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, 23d Tactical Fighter Wing, 91st Air Refueling Squadron, 384th Air Refueling Wing / Bombardment Wing, and the Kansas Air National Guard 184th Tactical Fighter Training Group.

As the Soviet missile threat became more pronounced and warning time decreased, Strategic Air Command bases presented increasingly attractive targets.

On November 1, 1964, 321st Strategic Missile Wing was organized as the first Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) LGM-30 Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile wing, at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota.

* November 1, 1964 The 321st Strategic Missile Wing ( SMW ) was organized at Grand Forks AFB and construction began on its Minuteman II missile complex.

* October 6, 1999 The first missile silo was demolished in accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ).

Weinberger pushed for dramatic increases in the United States ' nuclear weapons arsenal and was a strong advocate of the controversial Strategic Defense Initiative, an initiative which proposed a space and ground-based missile defense shield.

The coup-de-grace is variously opined to be Stealth technology especially as embodied in the cruise missile, which would have required an unattainable number of installations to secure the Soviet border ; the Gulf War, which proved stealth and easily overcame Soviet-doctrine Iraqi forces ; or Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a clear attempt to obsolesce the Soviet nuclear arsenal, creating an immense expense for the Soviets to maintain parity.

Among the items scheduled for acceleration in the near future are the Polaris and B70 programs, strengthening of the airborne alert system of the Strategic Air Command, and improved battlefield surveillance systems.

Following the proposal of the Sentinel and Safeguard decisions on American ABM systems, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in November 1969 ( SALT I ).

The Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) was proposed by U. S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

The United States Office of Strategic Services, later renamed the CIA, noted specific value in committing simple sabotage against the enemy during wartime: " slashing tires, draining fuel tanks, starting fires, starting arguments, acting stupidly, short-circuiting electric systems, abrading machine parts will waste materials, manpower, and time.

The company's first projects consisted of contract work for companies like Epyx and Strategic Simulations, Inc. ( SSI ), porting 8-bit titles to 16-bit systems like Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

As a Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) unit, the 4080th was later redesignated the 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing and also acquired Lockheed DC-130 Hercules aircraft for launch and control of Firebee reconnaissance drones that were the precursors of contemporary unmanned aerial systems.

Capability development, which is often referred to as the military " strength ", is arguably one of the most complex activities known to humanity because it requires determining: Strategic, operational and tactical capability requirements to counter the identified threats ; Strategic, operational and tactical doctrines by which the acquired capabilities will be used ; identifying concepts, methods and systems involved in executing the doctrines ; creating design specifications for the manufacturers who would produce these in adequate quantity and quality for their use in combat ; purchase the concepts, methods and systems ; create a forces structure that would use the concepts, methods and systems most effectively and efficiently ; integrate these concepts, methods and systems into the force structure by providing military education, training, and practice that preferably resembles combat environment of intended use ; create military logistics systems to allow continued and uninterrupted performance of military organisations under combat conditions, including provision of health services to the personnel and maintenance for the equipment ; the services to assist recovery of wounded personnel and repair of damaged equipment ; and finally post-conflict demobilisation and disposal of war stocks surplus to peacetime requirements.

The era of the Strategic Defense Initiative ( proposed in 1983 ) focused primarily on the development of systems to defend against nuclear warheads, however, some of the technologies developed may be useful also for anti-satellite use.

Research and Development ( both of ASAT systems and other space based / deployed weapons ) has, however, reported to have been resumed under the government of Vladimir Putin as a counter to renewed US Strategic Defense efforts post Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Information received from the PAVE PAWS radar systems pertaining to SLBM / ICBM and satellite detection is forwarded to the U. S. Strategic Command ’ s Missile Correlation ( formerly Missile Warning ) and Space Control Centers at Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colorado.

These Strategic Arms Limitation Talks resulted in two landmark arms control treaties: SALT I, the first comprehensive limitation pact signed by the two superpowers, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles.

BAE describes Taranis's role in this context as following: " This £ 124m four year programme is part of the UK Government ’ s Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle Experiment ( SUAVE ) and will result in a UCAV demonstrator with fully integrated autonomous systems and low observable features.

The concept of Strategic Information Systems or " SIS " was first introduced into the field of information systems in 1982-83 by Dr. Charles Wiseman, President of a newly formed consultancy called " Competitive Applications ," ( cf.

Strategic systems are information systems that are developed in response to corporate business initiative.

* Light tanks-small, thinly armoured, weakly gunned ; superior Tactical / Strategic mobility tanks intended for the armoured reconnaissance role ; many are losing favor to cheaper, faster, lighter armoured cars.

Strategic bombing are heavy bombers primarily designed for long-range bombing missions against strategic targets such as supply bases, bridges, factories, shipyards, and cities themselves, in order to damage an enemy's war effort.

He is assisted by the Deputy Commander and the Chief of Staff, who are responsible for Strategic Command and Land Force Command.

Strategic plays in polo are based on the " line of the ball ", an imaginary line created by the ball as it travels down the field.

There are also three independent arms of service: Strategic Missile Troops, Russian Space Forces, and the Airborne Troops.

Strategic plans are drawn up with suppliers to support the manufacturing flow management process and the development of new products.

The olive branch, a symbol of peace, and the lightning flashes, symbolic of speed and power are qualities underlying the mission of the Strategic Air Command.

Missile compartments are dismantled according to the provisions of the Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty.

* Strategic — military units are typically division, corps, or army-sized, rated by raw strength.

Among the most popular electives at Columbia Business School are the Economics of Strategic Behavior, Financial Statement Analysis and Earnings Quality, Launching New Ventures, Modern Political Economy, and the Seminar in Value Investing.

There are 2 Taco Bell sites in the UK in operation at the Strategic Air Command and United States Air Force bases at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, but, commensurate with existing security controls, access is restricted to relevant service personnel.

The Joint Space Operations Center, part of United States Strategic Command ( formerly the United States Space Command ), currently tracks more than 8, 500 objects larger than 10 cm in LEO, however a limited Arecibo Observatory study suggested there could be approximately one million objects larger than 2 millimeters, which are too small to be visible from Earth.

PASSIA ’ s educational and training seminars are divided into two categories: In ­ ternational Affairs – including seminars on Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies and Security, the EU, Education on Democ ­ racy, The Foreign Policies of Arab States, Japan and the Middle East, and The United States and Canada: Political Systems, Policy-Making and the Middle East – and Civil Society Empowerment, with seminars held to date including those on Policy-Making, Strategic Planning & Media & Com ­ munication Skills.

" Later that same year, General John C. Meyer, Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command, stated, " we let the drone do the high-risk flying ... the loss rate is high, but we are willing to risk more of them ... they save lives!

Strategic road connections are possible from the M25 to the line via the nearby Ebbsfleet International station, allowing onward travel into London or into France and continental Europe.

In various United States Air Force communities ( e. g. Strategic Air Command ), blivet may have referred to what are euphemistically called " Special Weapons " whose presence are officially neither confirmed nor denied.

Strategic networks of public and private partners are encouraged.

FAS projects are organized under four main program areas: Biosecurity, Earth Systems, Educational Technologies, and Strategic Security.

The very same Caltrops were used extensively and to very good effect during World War II so much so that the modifications and variants produced by the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) and the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) are still in use today within Special Forces and Law Enforcement bodies.

There should be 33 Static Titan 1 Strategic Missiles and two ( plus five possible ) Research and Development Missiles to account for ( of these 22 have been positively identified by Serial Number, eight known but need to be identified ) and three are unaccounted for, missing.

* Strategic independence ( especially if important inputs are rare or highly volatile in price, such as REM )