Ancestry
1944-57 in From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables: V-2 to first ICBM flight. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale75
Intensity35
Duration62
Tech shift96
Political impact85
Cultural memory72
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
Did ICBMs come from the V-2?
Teams, drawings, and the idea of a ballistic rocket did. Range, warhead, and guidance of the 1957-62 types were a different industrial generation. Mittelbau-Dora slave labour is part of the V-2 ledger.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis to this type?
October 1962 was about medium-range missiles in Cuba and a US blockade, with ICBM and bomber forces on high alert in the background. It is a political crisis file, not a firing drill.
What did SALT and START do?
They capped and later reduced declared launchers and warheads, with verification. SALT I is 1972; START I is 1991; New START is 2010. Details belong to the treaty texts, not to a targeting lesson.
How does the submarine page relate?
SSBNs carry SLBMs -- the sea leg of the same deterrent idea. See that page for boats; this page for land missiles and the shared treaty story.
How does Korea fit?
The ROK was not a 1950s ICBM operator. The peninsula sits in later extended-deterrence and regional missile politics -- described as history, not as a live threat map.
Peenemunde, Baikonur/Tyuratam, Vandenberg, the Great Plains fields, Geneva hotel rooms.
Cuba 1962 as a Caribbean map point of a land-missile age.
Maps
Shock years
1957-62 in From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables: R-7, Sputnik, Atlas, Minuteman, Cuba. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Triad and SALT
1963-79 in From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables: Parity talk and the first limits. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Scare and reduction
1980-91 in From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables: Able Archer; INF; START as the Cold War ends. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Inheritance and new testers
After 1991 in From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables: Ukraine transfers; later regional programmes as news, not as a manual. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Portrayals
Wernher von Braun biographies
The usual English doorway into Intercontinental ballistic missile: V-2 technical lead, then a US space-and-missile name -- a career that begins in a slave-labour rocket and ends in NASA fame. Use as history.
Sergei Korolev biographies
The paired doorway: The R-7 and Sputnik bureau head, long hidden behind a title. Died 1966. The Soviet ICBM story without a Hollywood face.
School survey chapters
Where Intercontinental ballistic missile (1957-present as a deployed type (V-2 ancestry 1944-45)) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables local hours.
Local museums / sites in From Peenemunde and Kapusti.
Thicker than the English paragraph. Inheritance and new testers is the usual late pilgrimage caption.
Feature film / television
If Intercontinental ballistic missile has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.
Korean comparative essays
A Korean reader may pair Intercontinental ballistic missile with 1950-53, Inchon, Tsushima, or the ROK force-structure story even when the campaign was elsewhere.
Rituals
1944-09-08 / 2010-21 dates
The usual ritual poles of Intercontinental ballistic missile: V-2 combat use and New START.
Museum and cemetery wreaths
Official and family rites at sites in From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables. Robert McNamara is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.
Classroom minutes
Where Intercontinental ballistic missile is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside From Peenemunde and Kapustin Yar to silos, submarines, and treaty tables's own calendar.
Sayings
Titan Missile Museum and the Imperial War Museum's V-2 are the English civic sites.
No live coordinates.