Sentences with phrase «by nuclear submarines»

USS Skate heads north on another epic cruise into the strange underseas realm first opened up by our nuclear submarines.

Not exact matches

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The number of nuclear warheads on a Trident II was limited to eight and the number of missiles on each submarine was limited to 20 by nuclear treaties.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

I would say that clear defining point of Nuclear War is when a nation achieves what is called «The Nuclear Triad» which refers to the three ways to deliver a nuke to a target: Ground Based Launches, Sea Based Launches (usually uses Submarines) and Sky based Launches (by both missile systems on a plane and gravity bombs).

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has denied claims by the Argentinean government that Britain has sent a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic.

The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) claimed that decisions made in order to save money in the short term, like slowing the production of the Successor nuclear submarine, added an extra # 200 million to the overall cost of the project.

They are appalled by what they see as the surrender of many key Liberal Democrat cornerstone policies, such as the commitment not to renew the Trident Nuclear submarine.

Labour's support for maintaining a nuclear deterrent that is constantly at sea - in other words, a submarine system similar to Trident rather than pared - down version - was passed by the party's National Policy Forum without opposition and will remain in the manifesto.

It is estimated that the Israel nuclear deterrent force has the ability to deliver them by intermediate - range ballistic missile, intercontinental ballistic missile, aircraft, and submarine - launched cruise missile.

Only 28 % support the plan floated by Corbyn to build new submarines yet not have them carry nuclear weapons.

In December 2006 the government published a defence white paper advocating Trident replacement and on March 14th 2007 parliament voted by 409 votes to 161 in favour of authorising the government to take steps to maintain Trident nuclear weapons system after the Vanguard - class submarines leave service in the mid-2020s.

He said submarine numbers may be cut from four to three, while the number of nuclear warheads would be cut by 20 % to 160.

Was this was a rogue attack, launched individually by radicals who took control of a nuclear submarine, and not an act of state policy?

A report for the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warns of a «stark» gap now exists between the reduced threat of a nuclear attack and the deterrent patrols operated by Britain's nuclear submarines.

In an exclusive article for PoliticsHome, the Labour peer said the Shadow Defence Secretary «belittles our party» by claiming that underwater drones could make the UK's nuclear submarines obsolete.

That is exactly the same approach being taken in parallel by Labour's backbench defence committee, chaired by John Woodcock, which has heard from figures ranging from the head of CND to former nuclear submarine commanders.

Alexandr Nikitin, a Russian engineer, was charged in 1996 with high treason and divulging state secrets for co-authoring a report for the Norwegian - based Bellona Foundation that documented the environmental dangers posed by the abandoned nuclear submarines of the Russian Northern Fleet in the Kola Peninsula.

1985 Researchers commissioned jointly by the U.S. Navy and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution set out to find and map two sunken nuclear submarines lost in the same area.

The nuclear warheads resting on ballistic missiles in silos, circling the globe in submarines or carried — sometimes mistakenly — by aircraft hail from an era when the U.S. targeted its largest foe, the U.S.S.R. and, more recently, Russia and China.

That problem has been addressed by the design of a «new triad» — traditionally the three nuclear limbs comprising intercontinental ballistic missiles, air - delivered gravity bombs, and submarine - launched ballistic missiles — to include other weapons systems.

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.

Norway and Sweden are worried about the threat posed by radioactive leaks from sunken nuclear - powered submarines and nuclear waste off the Kola Peninsula, as well as the safety of the nuclear plants there.

Nuclear reactors are routinely used by the U.S. Navy to power its aircraft carriers and submarines.

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.

In 1968 I watched the launch of a Polaris missile submarine in Birkenhead — it was powered by... a small modular nuclear reactor — all nuclear subs (missile or not) are powered by such systems — which have been around for + / - 60 years.

He's played by Kevin Bacon using one of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's old World Domination kits of menacing sneers, imperious stares and counter-intuitive tailoring, but even though he travels round the globe in his own sinister nuclear submarine, he's never quite spine - chilling enough (Kevin Bacon and January Jones, pictured below).

Bond tries to retrieve sunken launch codes for British nuclear submarines (always with the nukes), assisted by Carole Bouquet.

The Kursk movie is inspired by the unforgettable true story of the K - 141 KURSK, a Russian flagship nuclear - powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000.

The best submarine commander in the Soviet Union (Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) now leads the maiden voyage of the Red October, a spiffy new nuclear submarine capable of going undetected by sonar, to the United States.

James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is using his license to kill as he chases down the evil Renard (Robert Carlyle), a terrorist trying to create havoc for the oil industry by turning a nuclear submarine into a bomb and blowing up a pipeline.

This terrorist is trying to create havoc for the oil industry by turning a nuclear submarine into a bomb and blowing up a pipeline.

The quirky Malvern, U.K. - based outfit builds British man - of - wars compared to the advanced nuclear submarines on the road today, cobbling together wood - framed sports cars by hand the same way it has since the first four - wheeled Morgan hit the streets in 1936.

Riding on a nuclear submarine, pretending to sink ships and wipe out major cities by firing torpedoes and intercontinental ballistic missiles?

Packed with too many stars to mention, Jack Ryan, played by Alec Baldwin, finds himself on the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Dallas trying to convince its Captain, Bart Mancuso, that a Soviet submarine they are chasing is actually looking to defect, not to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons as the Soviets claim.

They were, in fact, «soldier» dolphins, trained by the US Navy to follow a sonic recall device or «pinger», detect explosives, locate lost torpedoes, guard nuclear submarines and possibly even kill divers.

After graduating from St. Joseph by - the - Sea High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as an electrical operator on a nuclear - powered submarine.

The submarine mission where a small team manages to immobilize a Russian submarine, break in, reroute where some nuclear missiles are launched, and then escape on an epic boat chase that swerves about the ocean and between huge battle ships pelted by huge missiles.

Perched awkwardly on the edge of the seafront, as faceless and silver as the conning tower of a nuclear submarine, the awkwardly named Turner Contemporary, designed by David Chipperfield and opened in 2011, has zero ambition to blend in with its surroundings.

At one extreme is Peter Fend, whose hallway painting unfolds as a detailed, step - by - step proposal for adapting Russian nuclear - missile submarines for the collection of algae and plastic in the world's oceans.

I am a strong proponent of controlling pollution, not just CO2 (soot has done much to reduce the ice's albedo) and it is preposterous that China is being given such latitude as a «poor nation» when it's also building skyscrapers by the dozen, nuclear submarines and a space program while effectively employing its youth as feedstock for manufacturing goods subsidized by their government.

Despite decades of cat - and - mouse sonar hunts by American and Soviet nuclear submarines, no one had mapped this vast chunk of rock until now, or run into it (as has happened elsewhere).

... once I had one of them tell me that the radiative greenhouse effect was proved by cavitation off of a nuclear submarine propeller... be aware that this is what they will do, how low they will go.

It followed the surfacing at the North Pole in 1958 by the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine.

The first period of data began in 1958 with the first nuclear submarine, the United States» Nautilus, and concluded with a cruise by H.M.S. Sovereign in 1976.

altering anything about ANYTHING in that nuclear submarine manned by individuals whose sole occupation when they were off duty was to pay attention to every single unusual nuance of the physical or psychological or ANY aspect of that submarine.

Before attending law school, Russ served as a division officer on board a nuclear - powered, fast - attack submarine and was certified as a Naval Nuclear Engineer by the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors Dinuclear - powered, fast - attack submarine and was certified as a Naval Nuclear Engineer by the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors DiNuclear Engineer by the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors Division.

Among the recent signs that ill will persists on both sides: the planned sale in the U.K. of a telex touting Argentina's surrender in the 1982 conflict and an Argentine soccer league's move to rename a division after a battleship sunk by a nuclear - powered Royal Navy submarine during hostilities.

There is a case of an individual named Robert Knowles was fined # 800 and ordered to pay costs of # 3,500 after being prosecuted by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for flying a drone within 50 metres of the Jubilee Bridge on the Walney Channel and flying over a nuclear installation, the BAE System submarine - testing facility.