Test and evaluation personnel prepare a Pershing II missile at White Sands Missile Range. U.S. Army photo Staff Reports A look back at the 1970s and 1980s The 1970s and 1980s marked a pivotal era for ...

The National Air and Space Museum acquires a Soviet SS-20 missile and an American Pershing II missile which had been banned by the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.