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Missiles in the Nuclear Age By the 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were arming missiles with nuclear weapons, and the U.S. Air Force had begun to deploy those missiles in Europe before it had achieved the capability to strike Moscow from a launching site in the United States. This photograph shows the first Thor Ballistic Missile arriving at an RAF Base in Norfolk, England, in 1958. © Mary Evans/The Image Works.