However, 40 years after Russia launched the first Sputnik satellite, men and women are still being sent into space on top of a modified post-war ballistic missile (see article).
In the Cold War the nuclear-missile standoff between the U.S. and USSR led to gargantuan stockpiles of another sort under a security doctrine known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
The most deadly attack on American forces in the Gulf war occurred when a Scud missile fell on a supply base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Bishop, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, is accused of telling her secrets about U.S. nuclear weapons, missile defenses, war plans, early warning radar systems and other issues.
The commission says U.S. analysts have made the mistake of judging new missile threats by Cold War assumptions.
Russia was alarmed when the US withdrew from another Cold War agreement - the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - in 2001.
The standoff with the Soviet Union in October 1962, a fight that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, ended without war, which gave the market license to rise again.
The military contractor Raytheon would probably like to erase a few controversies in its past, like the disappointing performance of its Patriot Missile in the first Iraq War, or an espionage lawsuit from a competitor in 1996.
In the two decades since the Cold War ended, the number of domestic missile producers has declined from a dozen to four, the number of naval shipbuilders has shrunken from six to two, and the number of companies that can build manned military aircraft has been cut in half.
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True, Kennedy rescued the world from a nuclear war by using diplomacy to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully.
Most importantly, he withdrew the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an archaic Cold War document that some (notably, Senator John Kerry ) foolishly considered to be the "cornerstone of strategic stability" even a decade after the other party - the Soviet Union - had ceased to exist.
President Jacques Chirac of France, for example, took issue with Bush's characterization of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty as a relic of the Cold War.
This was the 13th missile launched from Iraq toward Kuwait since the war began, but most have been knocked out of the sky by Patriot missiles.
One of them is all about ballistic missile defenses and past treaties which ended the Cold War.
For example, the difference between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the recent war with Iraq was not that one was invulnerable to ballistic missile attack and the other was not.
But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.
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They also converted the first four vessels in the class to cruise-missile launchers with no nuclear role after the Cold War ended, which is why there are only 14 Ohios carrying ballistic missiles today rather than the 18 that were built.
In the Gulf War, F-15Es flew mainly at night to hit Scud missile launchers and artillery sites.
During the Gulf War, SAS teams penetrated deep within Iraq to search for mobile Scud missile launchers.
PAC-3 (the forthcoming version of the Patriot missile, whose early model was tested during the 1991 Gulf war), and a naval system that might be on American ships by 2003.
However when it was ratified in Moscow, Russian lawmakers linked it to the preservation of an earlier Cold War deal - the ABM - which prevented either side from creating a national missile defence system.
Al Gore (D-TN), the Senate signalled that it, at least, had learned one of the most important lessons of the Gulf War: It is better to be defended, even imperfectly, against ballistic missile attack than to be defenseless against it.
She recalled that her closest moments with her husband came during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the US and Soviet Union seemed on the brink of nuclear war.
We have recognized that the hostility that characterized US and Soviet relations during the Cold War has ended, hostility that was enshrined in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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