Sentences with phrase «strategic warheads»

(Pardon my ignorance — are these all the strategic warheads or are there also silos in...

The New START Treaty signed by the United States and the Russian Federation in 2010 limited each side to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads.

Not exact matches

This includes both strategic and nonstrategic warheads.

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 missile's reentry vehicle, or where North Korea would put its warhead, burned up during the final seconds before touching down on the ground, Mike Elleman, the senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said on press call organized by North Korea analysis website 38 North.

In a «Globes» interview today, Tal Inbar, head of the Space Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies, stated, «The backbone of Hamas's missile batteries is the Grad missile, a standard 122 - mm rocket with a 20 - 40 km range and a metal fragmentation warhead designed to cause casualties.»

Although the Strategic Defence Review said the shift from WE177 and Polaris to Trident had reduced the UK's megatonnage of warheads by 70 per cent since the 1970s, Trident is a much more powerful weapon than its predecessors.

[8] In the Strategic Defence Review published in July 1998, the government stated that once the Vanguard submarines became fully operational (the fourth and final one, Vengeance, entered service on 27 November 1999), it would «maintain a stockpile of fewer than 200 operationally available warheads».

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.

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 new weapon would not fulfill a new strategic role in a changed world, but rather replace a portion of the W76 arsenal, due to concern over the aging warheads» ability to retain their full destructive potential in storage.

Recalculated yield estimates of Soviet weapon tests indicate that U.S.S.R. compliance with treaty limits has restrained its development of strategic nuclear warheads

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.