alaska has the most coastline in the continental us.
alaska has the most coastline in the continental us.
which state has the most coastline in the continental us?
alaska
during the cold war between 1946 and 1991 the us, uk, and nato allies faced the ussr and its allies and were engaged in an arms race of improving radar and fighter intercept capability versus the threat of intercontinental strategic bombers carrying nuclear weapons. initially, high altitude later combined with high supersonic speeds were hoped to keep nuclear bombers out of range of fighters and later surface to air missiles, both of which were sometimes equipped with nuclear warheads. in the 1960 u-2 incident an american very high altitude spy plane was shot down over the ussr with a s-75 dvina(sa-2) long range high altitude surface to air missile largely refuting the concept of high altitude as a refuge for high-performance bomber aircraft. us training changed to low altitude flight of bombers and unpiloted cruise missiles in the hopes of avoiding ground-based air defense radar networks by hiding in with ground clutter and terrain thwarting attempts at air supremacy over the enemy landmass, nuclear missiles were also introduced and were very difficult and expensive to intercept even with nuclear-armed defensive missiles. airborne early warning and control flying radar-* aircraft as well as look down shoot down radar in fighter and interceptor aircraft allowed engaging low flying invaders again tipping the balance though this was partly ameliorated by succeeding generations of electronic countermeasures. ultimately the us lead the way in first applying stealth technology to small strike aircraft like the f-117 and stealthy nuclear cruise missiles carried in conventional bombers for standoff release before the air defenses got too thick. the soviet union invested heavily in expensive to defeat intermediate and intercontinental range nuclear missiles and less on expensive to maintain and patrol bombers, though they had to spend heavily on interceptors and surface to air missiles as well as radar sites to cover the huge landmass of the soviet union. the us joined with canada to organize defense of the area of alaska, canada, and the continental us with north american aerospace defense command or norad with both interceptors some armed with the nuclear air-2 genie and a surface to air missile component which was at one point partly nuclearized was gradually phased out. development beginning during and intended for a superopwer hot nuclear war the b-2 stealth bomber was the first fully mature stealth aircraft to enter service, the f-22 advanced tactical fighter was a stealth fighter and interceptor aircraft designed during to cold war as a medium altitude air superiority fighter which was intended to destroy warsaw pact aircraft without ever being detected or engaged; both were introduced after the fall of the soviet union and the end of the cold war.
air supremacy
he has claimed variously that "north korea has all types of nuclear bombs and warheads, atomic, hydrogen and neutron, and the means of delivery, short-range, medium-range and long-range, putting the whole of the continental us within effective range" and that "[u]nlike all the previous wars korea fought, a next war will be better called the american war or the dprk-us war because the main theater will be the continental us, with major cities transformed into towering infernos." additionally, he has threatened australia with similar results, stating "[i]f australia becomes part of american manipulation against north korea, north korea reserve the right to strike back on australia".
kim myong-chol