Sentences with phrase «carrying nuclear warheads»

The concept goes like this: a runaway truck carrying nuclear warheads needs an escort to take it to safety.

Missiles carrying nuclear warheads, for example, could be thrown off course if no allowance was made for mountain ranges or valleys.

Could a person in an ICBM launch control center or on a submarine, ready and willing to turn the keys that would launch the missiles carrying nuclear warheads aimed to kill over 100 million people in half an hour, possibly be considered «pro-life»?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

Tillerson's remarks came two weeks after North Korea conducted a test with a missile that could potentially carry a nuclear warhead to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

The weapon, which can carry nuclear warheads while travelling at 7,000 mph, can also reportedly neutralize the U.S. anti-missile shield.

Russia is currently working on a new hypersonic missile, which can carry nuclear warheads and breach existing missile defense systems, according to military experts.

The same was true with the Space Race, which the Russians failed to disclose any failures publicly and used rockets that were entirely devised to carry nuclear warheads.

Not exact matches

«Unmanned underwater vehicles can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads, which enables them to engage various targets, including aircraft groups, coastal fortifications, and infrastructure,» he said.

The Minuteman III can carry up to three nuclear warheads at once, but today, the missiles carry just one because of international arms control agreements.

More - advanced ICBMs can carry and target even more nuclear warheads.

Finally, the DF - 41 carries up to 12 large nuclear Multiple, Independently targeted Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads, increasing its effectiveness against multiple large, hardened targets and decreasing the ability to intercept it after re-entry into the atmosphere during its terminal attack phase.

North Korea says the missile can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.

«The North will carry out additional nuclear tests and continue to push for the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads,» South Korea's National Intelligence Service said, according to lawmakers who spoke with Yonhap.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency calls the missile a «new ground - to - ground medium long - range strategic ballistic rocket» and says it was «capable of carrying a large, heavy nuclear warhead.»

Following the launch, Pyongyang issues a statement saying the Hwasong - 15 is «capable of carrying a super-heavy nuclear warhead.»

Deployed aboard Ohio - class ballistic missile submarines, each Trident II can carry 14 independently - targeted nuclear warheads.

They can carry either 166 bomblets, a 1,000 - pound conventional warhead, or the W80 nuclear warhead with a 5 - 150 kt yield.

The biggest difference in the Knyaz Vladimir is its ability to launch four additional RSM - 56 Bulava ballistic missiles, each capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads.

By that reasoning I should be able to buy and carry around a shoulder fired rocket launcher with nuclear tipped warhead rockets.

Reports say that the rocket used to put the satellite in orbit can carry up to 500 kilos (far more than a rocket tested in 2012), which would be enough to convey nuclear warheads.

[168] In a January 2015 written statement, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon reported that» All Vanguard Class SSBNs on continuous at - sea deterrent patrol now carry 40 nuclear warheads and no more than eight operational missiles».

North Korea has said it has carried out a «higher level» nuclear warhead test explosion which will allow it to finally build «at will» an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.

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.

The scientists would then produce a modified design, carry out another nuclear test and so on until the warhead was exploding in the required manner.

Typically, this process would take many years and several tests, although the collaboration with American weapon designers has helped to speed up Britain's programme in comparison with, say, the French (who carry out more nuclear tests per warhead design than the other nuclear weapons state).

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.

When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, brilliant U.S. nuclear specialist Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) discovers the accident is really part of a diabolical plot to cover up the theft of the weapons.

Soviet ships, originally designed to carry cargo such as lumber or food, had been outfitted to transport nuclear warheads to their ally in the Caribbean.

All this leads to President Kennedy getting Russia to remove its nuclear warheads from Cuba, the Russian atom bomb test in Nova Zemlya, in 1960 that was 1,570 times greater than Hiroshima that led to President Kennedy's call for international inspection and control of all nuclear technology and the real reason he was killed, who ordered it and how it was carried out.