Pershing Missile Bibliography

This Pershing missile bibliography is a list of works related to the Pershing 1 and Pershing 1a Field Artillery Missile Systems and the Pershing II Weapon System.

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Aviation Week''

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''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists''

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Field Artillery''

''Artillery Trends'' (1958–1969)

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''The Field Artilleryman'' (1969-1973)

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''Field Artillery Journal'' (1973-1987)

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''Field Artillery'' (1987-2007)

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''Fires'' (2007)

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''Interavia''

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''Life''

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''The Ordnance Magazine''

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''The Giant'' and ''The Pershing Cable''

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'' PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly''

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''Redstone Rocket''

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''The Big Picture''

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Photos

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Fiction

Novels

* A US Army officer attempts to sell Pershing II missile technology to the East Germans.
* Nick Carter must retrieve a plaster Madonna containing the computer codes of all the Pershing missiles.
* The KGB resists Pershing II missiles being deployed in West Germany.
* The first few chapters are based on the real-life experiences of a Pershing missile guard with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment.
* The codes for Pershing missiles based at Ramstein Air Base are stolen.
* In post-apocalyptic America of 2015, a would be dictator uses seven National Guard Pershing 1 missiles painted red to attack Denver.
* A Pershing missile escaped destruction during the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty elimination and terrorists use it to threaten London.
* During an alien invasion, Pershing missiles are retargeted to attack an orbiting ship.
* Cuban refugees enlist in the US Army to use a Pershing 1s missile to assassinate Castro.

Film

* There are two short scenes with a Pershing 1 at 1:17:06 and 1:18:51.
* A Pershing II missile is created from 31 January 1983 cover of ''Time''.
* Cmdr. Hunter is watching the news when the newscaster states "Threatened to use nuclear arms on the United States and Japan... should anyone, including the Russian Army, attempt to move in on him." The missile being erected is a Pershing II.
* The character is wearing the inverted insignia of the 56th Field Artillery Command.
* The scene at the National Air and Space Museum includes prop versions of the Pershing II and SS-20 missiles.

Television

* Wonder Woman must stop the hijacking of an experimental thought controlled missile. The missile prop is an Estes model rocket Pershing.
* The interceptor missile launch is U.S. Army footage of a Pershing 1a missile launch.
* The series is set in 1983 West Germany during the Pershing II deployment. Series opening includes a Pershing 1a being erected.
* Series opening includes a Pershing 1a being erected.

Music

* The first verse ends with "And a Pershing II rises from the Olympus Range"
* The gatefold photo has four of the band members wearing the insignia of the 56th Field Artillery Command.

Music videos

* The missile is a Pershing 1a being erected with a timestamp of 13 November 1979. The scene occurs after the line "There's armies in the cities and the missiles stand ready for flight."

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** George Finley is a military artist who was the commander of the 74th U.S. Army Field Artillery Detachment, supporting Missile Wing 1 of the German Air Force. In 1988, the Blackjack Pershing Chapter of the United States Field Artillery Association commissioned a painting to commemorate the decommissioning of the Pershing system. 501 signed prints of ''The Final Countdown'' were created. The print is now available for sale again through his website.
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**Tsereteli created a sculpture using sections of scrapped US Pershing and Soviet SS-20 nuclear missiles. The sculpture, entitled Good Defeats Evil is a 39 foot high, 40 ton monumental bronze statue of St George fighting the dragon of nuclear war. It was donated to the UN by the Soviet Union in 1990 and placed on the grounds of the UN headquarters in New York City. A series of works based on the sculpture that also incorporated scrap from the missiles were released in a limited series of 160 each.
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A 39-inch-tall sculpture

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An enamel plaque with a copper back

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Bronze medallion
** The INF Treaty Missile Commemorative uses missile shards with a 7½ bronze medallion

Memorabilia

World Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief

Leonard Cheshire created the World Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief in 1990. The charity obtained Pershing and SS-20 scrap material and created memorabilia for fund raising.

* The badge is the group logo, a World War I whistle.
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**Parker created the World Memorial Pens, a series of pens and mechanical pencils with a Memorial Fund badge on the crown or clip, with half the proceeds going to the fund.
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Duofold Black International Fountain Pen
** Duofold Black International Ball Pen
** Duofold Black International Fountain Pen and Ball Pen; 90192
** Sonnet Fountain Pen
** Laque Black Ball Pen; 81632
** Laque Black Ball Pen and Mechanical Pencil
** Stainless GT Ball Pen; 81732
** Stainless GT Ball Pen and Mechanical Pencil
** 14K Dimonite G Ball Pen; 81532
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14K Dimonite G Ball Pen and Mechanical Pencil
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** On 4 November 1991 the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library opened in Simi Valley, California. The then five living presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were present at the opening. Parker presented each with a black ballpoint Duofold Centennial with the Presidential Seal on the crown formed from scrap material and the barrel engraved with signatures of the presidents. The pen was also offered in a walnut box with the names of all five presidents and the Presidential Seal.

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