Sentences with phrase «based nuclear arsenals»

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The deal puts the defense tech company in a strong position as it bids for the right to upgrade the U.S.'s ground - based arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear - armed missiles, a procurement program with a value estimated at over $ 60 billion over its expected lifetime.

The row broke out before a speech in London in which Fallon will warn that Miliband's refusal to rule out any involvement with the SNP could put at risk Britain's nuclear arsenal, based at Faslane and Coulport in Argyll.

Most nuclear security experts believe that's how long it would take for as many as 400 land - based nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal to be loosed on enemy targets after an initial «go» order.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear arsenal ever since.