Sentences with phrase «based warheads»

Shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry briefed Labour MPs on her review of defence policy on Monday night, warning submarine based warheads could become as obsolete as the Spitfire - sparking outrage from backbenchers.

The country could also have enough material to an additional 4 - 8 uranium based warheads.

It is believed that Pyongyang had up to eight plutonium based warheads as of 2015.

Not exact matches

The B61 became the basis for a number of other warheads in American service.

The AGM - 69 Short - Range Attack Missile's W69 warhead was also based on the B61.

Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents.

Whilst there is no confirmation about how these facilities have been used by the government, theoretically, they would enable the production of new warheads as long as there is enough base materials (e.g. uranium) available.

A periodically human - tended base on the moon of remotely operated interceptors armed with nuclear warheads (not capable of surviving atmospheric reentry) is what is needed.

In a real - world scenario, ground - based missile defense systems have to cope with near - impossible conditions: For instance, in addition to releasing a weapon - carrying warhead, a missile might deploy a cloud of decoys that look similar to a real warhead, confounding the defense system's attempts to take out the real thing.

Based on the available data, we are confident that the current program of stockpile stewardship, with some modifications, can preserve the U.S. arsenal for the foreseeable future and that it isn't necessary — and may even be counterproductive — to pursue new warheads.

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 ever since.

In place of testing live warheads in the desert, our national laboratories now employ complex computer simulations to try to predict how aging plutonium - based weapons might behave.

Among them: warheads carried by America's nuclear submarines and land - based intercontinental ballistic missiles, plus an older type of warhead still stockpiled for use by strategic bombers.

The warheads are being developed by a German scientist named Teller who fell into the hands of a criminal corporate entity based in Italy.

Based in the X-Men universe, the movie also features appearances from mutants Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic) and the moody, ambiguous Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand).

We see Weasel (TJ Miller) and Dopinder (Karan Soni) with a gun pointed at Cable (Josh Brolin), Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) powering up, Domino (Zazie Beetz) putting her luck - based powers to the test, and Blind Al (Leslie Uggams) wishing god took her hearing instead of sight, just so she doesn't have to listen to Wade Wilson's ramblings any longer.

Assuming the role of Dockson, a US Army Special Forces corporal, your mission is to launch a nuclear - warhead loaded missile to clear the base, and of course dispatch all of the zombies between you and the launch silo.