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Definitions: Peacekeeper |
PeacekeeperNoun1. A member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area. 2. Someone who keeps peace; "she's the peacekeeper in that family". 3. The pistol of a law officer in the old West. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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It was designed to replace the Minuteman III, being the first "third-generation" ICBM. Design work began in 1972 on the MX (Missile-eXperimental). Apart from technical improvements in the missile the issues of survivability and mobility were regarded as of increasing importance. In 1976 Congress refused to fund a silo-based system on the grounds of vulnerability and the project was halted until 1979 when President Carter approved the missile development and a system of multiple protective shelters linked by rail as a deployment system. President Reagan cancelled the new shelter system in 1981 and pushed for a "dense pack" solution to speed deployment in 1982, Congress again rejected the silo based sytem. A compromise was developed in mid-1983, by which there would be swift deployment of 100 new missiles in silos to show "national will" and remove the Titan II ICBM from use followed by a new more mobile single-warhead ICBM later.
Reagan pushed the name Peacekeeper, but the missile was officially designated the LGM-118A. It was first test fired on June 17, 1983 from Vandenberg AFB, California, it covered 6,700 km to impact successfully in the Kwajalein Test Range in the Pacific. The operational missile was manufactured from February 1984 and first deployed in December 1986 to the 90th Strategic Missile Wing at F.E. Warren AFB in Wyoming to retro-fitted Minuteman silos. Fifty working missiles had been deployed at Warren by December 1988. The planned deployment of a hundred missiles was cancelled by Congress in 1985 again over the survivability issue.
The survivability issue was to be solved by a "rail garrison" system whereby 25 trains each with two missiles would use the national railroad system to conceal themselves. It was intended to begin this system in late 1992 but budgetary constraints and the changing international situation led to it being scrapped.
The project has cost around $20 billion (up to 1998) and produced 114 missiles, at $400 m for each operational missile. The "flyaway" cost of each missile is estimated at only $20-70 million.
LGM-118A Peacekeeper
* First Stage : 2,200,000 KN thrust Thiokol solid fuel motor; * Second Stage : Aerojet General solid fuel motor; * Third Stage : Hercules solid fuel motor, * Mirv Bus : Rocketdyne restartable liquid fuel motor; storable hypergolic fuel
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peacekeeper missile."
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Movie/TV Titles | The Peacekeeper (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Peacekeeper. |  | LGM -118A Peacekeeper ICBM. |
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Human Rights | East Timor | In July 2000, approximately eight militia members shot and killed New Zealand U.N. peacekeeper Private Leonard William Manning and mutilated his corpse, near Suai, East Timor, where Manning's unit was patrolling the East/West Timor border area. (references) |
Indonesia | Killings by prointegration militias included those of West Timor resident Bornard Loddo in July 2000 and a Nepali U.N. peacekeeper in August 2000. There were no reports of progress into the investigation into these killings during the year. (references) | |
Indonesia | In November Jacobus Bere, a member of a group accused of the July 2000 killing of a New Zealand Peacekeeper, was retried for first- and second-degree murder, following a joint investigation of the incident by the Government and U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). (references) | |
Political Economy | Indonesia | The members of the United Nations Security Council have stressed the importance of the Indonesian government honoring its commitments to allow the safe return of all East Timorese who wish to go back to East Timor, dismantle the anti-independence militias now resident in West Timor, and bring to justice those responsible for the 1999 violence and for the murders of a UN Peacekeeper and three UNHCR personnel (including an American citizen) by Indonesians in 2000. (references) |
East Timor | On November 6, the trial of mid-level militiaman Jacobus Bere for the July 2000 killing of U.N. Peacekeeper Private Leonard Manning, a member of the New Zealand Army Battalion, continued. (references) | |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Your vote this spring on the Peacekeeper missile will be a critical test of our resolve to maintain the strength we need and move toward mutual and verifiable arms reductions. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We will stop all production of the peacekeeper missile. |
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| "Peacekeeper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peacekeeper" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "peacekeeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 维护å'Œå¹³çš„人. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eacekeeperpay миротворец (appeaser, conciliator, make peace, makepeace, pacificator, pacifier, peacemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "peacekeeper": peacekeepers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peacekeeper" (pronounced pē"skē'per) |
| 5 | -s k ē' p er | groundskeeper, housekeeper. |
| 4 | -k ē' p er | beekeeper, bookkeeper, crowkeeper, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, goalkeeper, innkeeper, scorekeeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper. |
| 3 | -ē' p er | minesweeper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-e-k-p-p-r" | |
-4 letters: prepack. | |
-5 letters: capper, keeper, packer, pecker, peeper, rappee, repack. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-e-k-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: peacekeepers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 61 63 65 6B 65 65 70 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .- -.-. . -.- . . .--. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01100001 01100011 01100101 01101011 01100101 01100101 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e a c e k e e p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0061 0063 0065 006B 0065 0065 0070 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071676971777171827184 |
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