Sentences with phrase «soviet nuclear missiles»

Having willfully turned the island into a Soviet satellite (and well before America's ill - advised Bay of Pigs invasion), Castro welcomed the shipment of Soviet nuclear missiles there, provoking a crisis that nearly incinerated the world.

On a mission to disable a Soviet nuclear missile, she disappeared into the subatomic quantum realm, which Lang coincidentally came back from at the movie's climax.

We learned of it when the first Ant - Man (Michael Douglas» Hank Pym) revealed that he lost his wife Janet (aka the Wasp) decades ago when the duo tried to disarm a Soviet nuclear missile.

The original Wasp, Janet van Dyne was revealed in 2015's Ant - Man to have disappeared into subatomic quantum realm years earlier while disabling a Soviet nuclear missile.

Not exact matches

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had smuggled nuclear missiles into Cuba, threatening 90 million Americans.

In 1978, the «Second Cold War» gets tougher following the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the decision taken by the United States to install a new nuclear missile generation (cruise missiles, Pershing II) in Western Europe.

America's extended nuclear umbrella had seemed viable in the early post-war years when the United States maintained overwhelming superiority in these weapons, but grew increasingly questionable as Soviet gains in nuclear and missile technology ushered in the era of superpower parity and «mutually assured destruction».

Both the Soviet Union and the USA needed short range missiles or air force to deliver the nuclear strike.

In one instance, journalists used the images to document the construction of the Soviet Krasnoyarsk radar, an alleged violation of the antiballistic missile treaty, explains nuclear physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, former science adviser for arms control in the U.S. State Department.

Danagoulian, who grew up in Armenia when it was part of Soviet Union before emigrating to the U.S. for college (he earned his bachelor's at MIT in 1999 and his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in 2006), says he remembers vividly the Cold - War days when both the U.S.S.R and the U.S. had thousands of nuclear missiles perpetually at the ready, aimed at each others» cities.

That period also saw the notorious Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other over the Soviet introduction of nuclear missiles into Cuba, the nearest the world has ever come to all - out nuclear war.

V. Falin was saying that SDI would not save the U.S. from Soviet missiles because the Soviets could still blow up nuclear weapons on their own territory, precipitate a nuclear winter, and destroy the US.

It was not known until after the collapse of the Soviet Union that there were also tactical nuclear missiles deployed to Cuba and, for the only time, under direct authority of field commanders who could fire without further authority from Moscow, so if the US had decided to attack Cuba, as many urged JFK to do, there is a reasonable chance that local commanders would have begun a nuclear exchange.