Sentences with phrase «ground nuclear missiles»

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

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).

The Air Force has announced contracts for nuclear cruise and ground - based missiles, even as some experts call the programs, which Trump has embraced, unnecessary and dangerous.

Yet the site, part of the White Sands missile range, is open two days each year to pilgrims to this «ground zero» of the nuclear arms race.

SMR - 160's nuclear commodities lie deep below the ground; making them inaccessible to direct assault by drones or missiles (underground portion of the plant shown in the cutaway view below).

One board member, Sharon Squassoni, of George Washington University's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy, said Russia was also responsible for raising tensions, for example by deploying ground - launched cruise missiles in 2017 in breach of the 1987 Intermediate - range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.