Sentences with phrase «of nuclear warheads of»

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One of these proposed weapons, an autonomous submarine, stood out among the depictions of falling warheads and nuclear - powered cruise missiles.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energys Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.

The delicate, potentially deadly dismantling of nuclear warheads at Pantex, while little noticed, has grown increasingly urgent to keep the United States from exceeding a limit of 1,550 warheads permitted under a 2010 treaty with Russia.

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.»

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 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.

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.

The business plan: Increase the value of Goldfinger's own considerable gold holdings by detonating a «dirty» nuclear warhead inside the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Ky., rendering the American gold reserve radioactive and useless for 58 years.

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.

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.

About eight or nine nations now possess nuclear warheads, many of them a great deal more destructive than the atomic bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Even if the use of nuclear warheads were avoided, the outbreak of an international conflict using more conventional but highly sophisticated weapons remains possible.

Just imagine a world where a couple of hundred nuclear warheads have laden the atmosphere with radiation and stripped the world of oil.

The START treaty would resume mutual inspections of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, while limiting both nations to 1,550 warheads and 700 launchers each.

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

Similarly, our prayers for healed bodies are inhibited by the presence of nuclear warheads and warmaking everywhere, and by all forms of social injustice.

But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001... He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet.

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.

But detailed provisions for the physical dismantlement of nuclear warheads and delivery platforms will have to be left for a later date.

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.

It has plenty of nuclear warheads and ICBMs to completely annihilate most of the NATO members capital.

The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads.

William Hague has surprised the House of Commons by revealing how many nuclear warheads the government owns.

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 warhead.

Estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal vary between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads.

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.

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?»

The nuclear treaty will see the establishment of two shared research facilities, one on French and one on British soil, which will enable components of the two countries» nuclear warheads to be tested under extremes of temperature and pressure.

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 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.

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

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.

Mr Corbyn added that if parliament approved Trident renewal it «takes away any opportunity of fulfilling our obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to reduce the number of vessels and warheads».

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

Describing what he called a «more open» policy, Hague said Britain's total number of nuclear warheads would not exceed 225, including the maximum 160 already declared as «operationally available».

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.

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.

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.

A periodically human - tended base on the moon of remotely operated interceptors armed with nuclear warheads (not capable of surviving atmospheric reentry) is what is needed.

The technique offers a way out of a tricky catch - 22: to comply with nuclear arms reduction treaties, inspectors need to scrutinise nuclear warheads to verify that real missiles, not decoys, are being disarmed.

A new class of nuclear weapons is being designed to replace the W - 88 warhead, which is fired from submarines.

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.

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.