Sentences with phrase «nuclear warheads in»

It's not too difficult to understand such a lopsided reliance on special effects, however, considering that Thunderball's premise is far too slim to accommodate its bloated 130 - minute running time: SPECTRE hijacks a NATO bomber jet and threatens to detonate its nuclear warheads in a major city in America or Great Britain unless both governments pay a hefty ransom.

Despite the chaos following the breakup of the Soviet Union — which left 18,000 nuclear warheads in the hands of new and mostly poor nations — there is no evidence that any of our old adversary's tactical or strategic nuclear weapons ever left government control.

Important questions yet to be resolved include the details of obtaining and confirming a target warhead during the zero - knowledge measurement; specifics of establishing and maintaining the pre-loaded detectors in a way that ensures inspecting party confidence without revealing any data considered sensitive by the inspected party; and feasibility questions associated with safely deploying active interrogation measurement techniques on actual nuclear warheads in sensitive physical environments, in a way that provides confidence to both the inspected and inspecting parties.

The number of nuclear warheads in an alert state is about 14900 (look here), of which there are about 1800 in the U.S.A. and Russia together.

And in early March, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California won the initial competition to design the nation's first new nuclear warhead in 20 years.

What does it mean when the U.S. government announces plans to create the first new nuclear warhead in two decades?

And the final sequence, in which Devoe and Kelly must defuse the nuclear warhead in a cathedral, is supposedly set in Manhattan but was actually shot in the breathtaking St. Martin's Cathedral, hard on the banks of the Danube in Bratislava (the exterior can be glimpsed briefly in an establishing shot, with the Manhattan skyline digitally added around it).

In order to do this they call upon the help of deep core oil driller named Harry Stamper (Willis, Mercury Rising) and his crew to go up to the asteroid to drill a hole deep enough to place a nuclear warhead in and blow the rock apart.

Your team must track down the party responsible for taking out another Ghost team and making off with a nuclear warhead in the process.

Not exact matches

There are widespread fears that North Korea is in the latter stages of developing nuclear warheads that could be attached to its ballistic missiles and aimed at the U.S. and its allies.

North Korea's reported progress on miniaturizing nuclear warheads — coupled with two test flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July — are raising pressure on Trump.

Further, Russia designed its nuclear weapons arsenal as absolute doomsday devices that rain up to 10 high - yield nuclear warheads down on targets at Mach 23 in a salvo that the US can't possibly hope to intercept.

And it also lifts scientists in the authoritarian nation who are working to build an arsenal of missiles with nuclear warheads that can reach the US mainland.

Musk's plan to fly people in rockets essentially amounts to taking the warheads out of nuclear missiles and putting people in them instead.

The Mail reports on Saturday that the sailors on the Trident submarine allegedly took cocaine while docked in the US to collect nuclear warheads.

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.

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.

Obama won't be in a hurry to train nuclear warheads on us though.

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»?

In the unfortunate case of nuclear war, Pyungyang City might be bombed by the nuclear warheads.

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.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

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.

If this happens in a national crisis (say a nuclear warhead took out a large portion of the chain of command quickly) and has not been resolved previously, this debate might not matter and the ex-president will likely take over quickly but temporarily.

In today's paper, in a paragraph near the very end of the story, is a mention of how much money Ratner stands to make from Atlantic Yards — a figure the developer has hidden as zealously as the code to a nuclear warheaIn today's paper, in a paragraph near the very end of the story, is a mention of how much money Ratner stands to make from Atlantic Yards — a figure the developer has hidden as zealously as the code to a nuclear warheain a paragraph near the very end of the story, is a mention of how much money Ratner stands to make from Atlantic Yards — a figure the developer has hidden as zealously as the code to a nuclear warhead.

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.

This explained that there is no programme to develop a new UK nuclear warhead but referred to the work currently being undertaken to inform decisions, likely to be taken in the next parliament, on whether and how we may need to refurbish or replace our current warhead.»

Months later, in November, Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey asked the defence secretary in parliament «what meetings have taken place between UK and US officials on the research and development of new nuclear weapons, with particular reference to the reliable replacement warhead?»

In a speech in March, the prime minister said the government would try to make further cuts to its nuclear warheads, which had been halved since 1997, as part of global dealIn a speech in March, the prime minister said the government would try to make further cuts to its nuclear warheads, which had been halved since 1997, as part of global dealin March, the prime minister said the government would try to make further cuts to its nuclear warheads, which had been halved since 1997, as part of global deals.

Lancman has accused the other candidates of «sticking their heads in the sand» and ignoring the problems of Social Security, while Meng has accused Lancman of negative campaigning over campaign literature that features nuclear warheads, which she said «literally scared» her children.

[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».

«This report suggests nothing has changed in the long - announced plans for maintaining and ultimately upgrading the UK's stock 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.

While important questions remain, the technique, first proposed in a paper published in 2014 in Nature magazine, might have potential application to verify that nuclear warheads presented for disarmament were in fact true warheads.

In a sensitive measurement, such as one involving a real nuclear warhead, the proposition is that no classified data would be exposed or shared in the process, and no electronic components that might be vulnerable to tampering or snooping would be useIn a sensitive measurement, such as one involving a real nuclear warhead, the proposition is that no classified data would be exposed or shared in the process, and no electronic components that might be vulnerable to tampering or snooping would be usein the process, and no electronic components that might be vulnerable to tampering or snooping would be used.

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

While Russia presses on with dismantling its nuclear warheads, the Pentagon is tying itself up in knots over how best to verify that its old rival is getting rid of as many as it says it is.

Now whenever workers at Pantex dismantle a nuclear warhead, the pit is sealed in a steel container and stacked in earthcovered bunkers on - site.

But they centre on a technological mystery that has long bedeviled outside experts: How far has North Korea got in efforts to consistently shrink down nuclear warheads so they can fit on long - range missiles?

And in part, the success of that program is what has enabled us to potentially go forward with some replacement warheads and not rely on nuclear testing.

The arguments for the reliable replacement warhead include, obviously, reliability, which is in the title of it, although that has somewhat been put to rest by expert study of the plutonium pets that rest at the center of a nuclear weapon; these are the key items for making a nuclear explosion.

In light of these surprising new capabilities, the US had a problem: how could it protect the country from an incoming nuclear warhead?

You've got this article in the November — that's the issue — Scientific American, «A Need for New Warheads, «and right on page two of the article, you actually list my first three questions, and they are: What is the purpose of the U.S. nuclear arsenal?

Hours after Seoul noted unusual seismic activity near the North's north - eastern nuclear test site, Pyongyang said in its state - run media that a test had «finally examined and confirmed the structure and specific features of movement of [a] nuclear warhead that has been standardised to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets».

The November issue of Scientific American features a special section called «Nuclear Weapons in a New World» — Dave's article is titled «A Need for New Warheads?»

So if we choose, to go in the direction of a new nuclear warhead, we may find ourselves with adversaries who have also chosen to go ahead and develop their own nuclear weapons.

5113 Number of operational warheads in the U.S. nuclear stockpile, according to the Pentagon.

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 Bush administration unveiled plans in April 2006 for a new complex to build all the components of new nuclear warheads — dubbed Complex 2030 for the year set for its completion.

But the first Reliable Replacement Warhead — and Complex 2030 behind it — is not designed with that goal in mind and, in the absence of policy statements from the current administration, it remains unclear what the role for nuclear weapons — old or new — in the U.S. might be.