In May 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was persuaded by the idea of countering the United States ' growing lead in developing and deploying strategic missiles by placing Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Finally, Khrushchev was also reacting in part to the Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missiles which the United States had installed in Turkey during April 1962.

The R-12 was the first operational intermediate-range ballistic missile, the first missile ever mass-produced, and the first Soviet missile deployed with a thermonuclear warhead.

The ABMA's primary mission was developing and fielding the Army's first intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Jupiter.

The transition from Army camp to missile base solidified on 15 December 1958 when Vandenberg AFB successfully launched its first missile, a PGM-17 Thor IRBM ( Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile ) The launch from Vandenberg inaugurated the intermediate-range ballistic missile portion of the Pacific Missile Range and was fired by a crew from the 1st Missile Division.

: Raketa Sredney Dalnosti ( RSD ) " Pioner "; ) was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead deployed by the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1988.

Following the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( ABMA ) was directed to proceed with the launching of a satellite using the Jupiter-C, which had already been flight-tested in nose-cone re-entry tests for the Jupiter IRBM ( intermediate-range ballistic missile ).

Following the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, ABMA was directed to proceed with the launching of a satellite using the Jupiter-C, which had already been flight-tested in nose-cone re-entry tests for the Jupiter IRBM ( intermediate-range ballistic missile ).

The last major missile developed under the program was the Agni 3 intermediate-range ballistic missile which was successfully tested on 9 July 2007.

The U. S. Army had largely assumed the tactical missile program until the 1980s when the General Dynamics BGM-109G " Tomahawk " GLCM was deployed along with the Army's Pershing II missile to counter to the mobile medium-and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles deployed by the Soviet Union in Eastern Bloc.

It was provoked by NATO ’ s decision in December 1979 to respond to a Soviet upgrading of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe with its own nuclear modernisation – cruise and Pershing II missiles to be deployed in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

The BGM-109G was developed as a counter to the mobile medium-and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles deployed by the Soviet Union in Eastern Bloc European countries.

Similarly, the Soviet Union used the intermediate-range Tu-22M ' Backfire ' in the 1970s, but their Mach 3 bomber project came to naught.

In August 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime ( Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose ), the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles ( MRBMs and IRBMs ) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States.

The Soviets were building nine sites — six for R-12 medium-range missiles ( NATO designation SS-4 Sandal ) with an effective range of and three for R-14 intermediate-range ballistic missiles ( NATO designation SS-5 Skean ) with a maximum range of.

Further deterioration occurred as a result of the Sept. 1, 1983 Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island carrying 269 people including a sitting US congressman, Larry McDonald, and over Reagan's stationing of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

ICBMs are differentiated by having greater range and speed than other ballistic missiles: intermediate-range ballistic missiles ( IRBMs ), medium-range ballistic missiles ( MRBMs ), short-range ballistic missiles ( SRBMs )— these shorter range ballistic missiles are known collectively as theatre ballistic missiles.

Two months later, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to sign a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, and the Supreme Soviet ordered Rust to be released in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture to the west.

Meanwhile, Soviet-U. S. arms control talks on intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe were suspended by the Soviet Union in November 1983 and by the end of 1983, the Soviets had broken off all arms control negotiations.

After the United States rejected an arms order, he arranged the delivery of intermediate-range nuclear-warhead-capable missiles from China.

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An intermediate-range ballistic missile ( IRBM ) is a ballistic missile with a range of 3, 000 – 5, 000 km ( 1, 865 – 3, 100 miles ), between a medium-range ballistic missile and an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Fearful that the Soviet Union would deploy a long-range ballistic missile before the U. S., in January 1956 the USAF began developing the Thor, a intermediate-range ballistic missile.

They operated all Soviet ground-based intercontinental, intermediate-range, and medium-range nuclear missiles with ranges over 1, 000 kilometers.

Finally, the secretary gave the Air Force sole authority to operate land-based intermediate-range ballistic missile ( IRBM ) systems and the Navy the same responsibility for ship-based IRBMs.

the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

A steering committee of students was organized on the first day whose duty it was to be alert and constantly evaluate and re-evaluate the direction and pace the class was taking.

For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in employment was called for yesterday in a report of a `` blue ribbon '' citizens committee on the aid to dependent children program.

A special presentation was made to Mrs. Geraldine Thompson of Red Bank, who is stepping down after 35 years on the committee.

Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3. 2 ( later X3L2 ) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3. 2. 4 working group.

The committee decided it was important to support upper case 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes.

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.

The X3 committee made other changes, including other new characters ( the brace and vertical line characters ), renaming some control characters ( SOM became start of header ( SOH )) and moving or removing others ( RU was removed ).

However, the committee of this French Missionary Society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be " incorrect ".

In 1952, he was brought before a United States Senate investigative committee.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.