Sentences with phrase «launch warheads»

The End has stated that he is ready to launch warheads against every major city in the world unless you stop him within 13 days.

ICBM - launched warheads are likely to explode high above a city, leading to relatively little radioactive fallout.

Not exact matches

It was not until 1957, with the Soviet launch of Sputnik - 1 using an R - 7 rocket — a Soviet ICBM also capable of delivering thermonuclear warheads — that the US government began to consider the use of rockets for space exploration.

Tracking a pre-planned route from launch to target using Global Positioning Satellites and an internal navigation system, the missile is designed to strike with a 1,000 - pound penetrating warhead.

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

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.

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Hering aged out of flying helicopters during the Vietnam War and decided to take a job as a missilier: one of many pairs of people in bunkers across the US that can launch intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads.

The W84 warhead used on the Ground - Launched Cruise Missile was also a variant of the B61 by way of the W80.

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.

But the risk to people also largely depends on whether or not North Korea launches a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile or a shorter - range rocket, such as one launched from a submarine.

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»?

Russia — the only potentially hostile major power in the UK's region — continues to deploy thousands of nuclear warheads, and has just launched a new class of ballistic missile submarine.

The policy document, which by its own admission «is not about launching new initiatives», comes after it emerged Barack Obama was prepared to delay the deployment of a US missile shield in eastern Europe to help persuade Russia to begin cutting its stockpile of nuclear warheads.

Short - range nuclear weapons remain deployed in Europe and many of the US and Russia's 3680 warheads are ready to launch at a moment's notice.

Glaser, Goldston and Boaz Barak, a professor of computer science at Harvard University and former Princeton associate professor, first launched the concept for a zero - knowledge protocol for warhead verification in the 2014 paper in Nature magazine.

In theory, the best time to intercept an enemy warhead is in the first three or four minutes after launch, when its blazing rockets are emitting a telltale — and highly trackable — plume.

Despite the panel's findings and the imminent refurbishments, the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program, an effort to replace the W76 launched three years ago by the DOE to allay reliability fears, continues.

Without having adequate staff on hand to guide their operations safely, technicians at PF - 4 were unable to carry out a scheduled destructive surveillance in 2014 of a refurbished plutonium pit meant for a warhead to be fit atop American submarine - launched ballistic missiles.

Their last desperate plan is to launch a nuclear warhead off the Pacific coast with the hopes of attracting the monster trio and blasting them to bits.

Launching July 20, Deadpool & The Mercs for Money re-introduces Negasonic Teenage Warhead as the merc team is hired to track down and eliminate all radioactive criminals.

Holding the US president hostage, the unit demands a $ 30 billion ransom lest they launch a nuclear warhead into Manhattan.

Israel successfully launches a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheads.

The military launched an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead from the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN - 608), which was situated near PMRF.

Playing as Dockson, a US Army Special Forces corporal, the fate of the American Southwest rests in your hands as you fight to launch a nuclear - warhead loaded missile vital to stopping the spread of zombies.

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.

In a series of large - scale works Castator's cartoonized figures guzzle beer, flail in the nude, roll doobies, and watch nuclear warheads launch across TV screens — all while the emergency exits melt and coalesce.

«While governments claim they are only ensuring the safety of their warheads through replacement of bomb components and launch systems, as the deliberate process of arms reduction proceeds, such developments appear to other states to be signs of substantial military build - ups.»