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Intercontinental ballistic missile: after “Did ICBMs come from the V-2?”, what about “What did SALT and START do?”?
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Intercontinental ballistic missile: after “Did ICBMs come from the V-2?”, what about “What did SALT and START do?”?

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. 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.

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Intercontinental ballistic missile · Did ICBMs come from the V-2?Teams, drawings, and the idea of a ballistic rocket did. Range, warhead, and…
Intercontinental ballistic missile · What did SALT and START do?They capped and later reduced declared launchers and warheads, with…
Intercontinental ballistic missile · How does the submarine page relate?SSBNs carry SLBMs -- the sea leg of the same deterrent idea. See that page…
Intercontinental ballistic missile · Why is techShift so high here?Because the type changed what "surprise attack" and "alliance guarantee"…

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.

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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.

Intercontinental ballistic missile · 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. 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.

Intercontinental ballistic missile · 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.

Intercontinental ballistic missile · 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. 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.

Intercontinental ballistic missile · Why is techShift so high here?

Because the type changed what "surprise attack" and "alliance guarantee" meant after 1957, more than it changed any single battlefield. Start with Dora and Peenemunde, not with a clean 1957 birthday. The type inherits a crime and a captured staff.

This explains a campaign, battle, or weapon in context. It is not a league of nations. It does not replace the full topic page.

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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. 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.
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This explains a campaign, battle, or weapon in context. It is not a league of nations. It does not replace the full topic page.
Where is the longer entry?
Because the type changed what "surprise attack" and "alliance guarantee" meant after 1957, more than it changed any single battlefield. Start with Dora and Peenemunde, not with a clean 1957 birthday. The type inherits a crime and a captured staff.

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