When the missiles start falling...

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The ICBM threat...1957

Think about this missile. It's above ground. It's unprotected. It has sensitive fueling eqiupment. Its basically a large ballon filled with LOX & Kerosene. Does it equal survivable? Answer=NO.

USA Code Name	SS-6
Nato Code Name:	Sapwood
Russian Designation:	8K71
Range:	19 000 Km
Stages:	2
Fuel:	Liquid - LOX & Kerosene
Engines Stage 1	RD-107
Engines Stage 2	RD-108
Inservice:	1957 - OOS
Max Number Deployed	Less than 10
Notes:	First ICBM in the world - forms the basis of Russian A-2 Rocket Launch System
Space Launcher Derivative	A-1 Family

Dream Factory Communism

A catalogue dedicated to the exhibition Dream Factory Communism. The Visual Culture of the Stalin Era held in the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. The later works of Soz-Art, a style in which characteristics of socialist realism are combined with Pop Art, provides a visual commentary and a critical take on the aesthetics of totalitarianism.

Text in German & English. Germany, 2003. 464 pages, 152 color & 108 b/w illus., hardcover. 9 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. (23.5 x 29 cm).

NSC 68

NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security

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III. Fundamental Design of the Kremlin

The fundamental design of those who control the Soviet Union and the international communist movement is to retain and solidify their absolute power, first in the Soviet Union and second in the areas now under their control. In the minds of the Soviet leaders, however, achievement of this design requires the dynamic extension of their authority and the ultimate elimination of any effective opposition to their authority.

The design, therefore, calls for the complete subversion or forcible destruction of the machinery of government and structure of society in the countries of the non-Soviet world and their replacement by an apparatus and structure subservient to and controlled from the Kremlin. To that end Soviet efforts are now directed toward the domination of the Eurasian land mass. The United States, as the principal center of power in the non-Soviet world and the bulwark of opposition to Soviet expansion, is the principal enemy whose integrity and vitality must be subverted or destroyed by one means or another if the Kremlin is to achieve its fundamental design.