Sentences with phrase «warhead for»

The contractor arrived and looked at the warhead for a moment and said, «I can solve this problem for you, and it's going to cost $ 25,000.»

But experts have long believed that manufacturing a compact warhead for a long - range missile capable of striking the US is one of the last remaining technologies North Korea has yet to master.

A declaratory policy of going to sea only with unarmed missiles and storing a reduced stockpile of warheads for redeployment within a specified timeframe.

At a public hearing in Santa Fe on June 7, the head of NNSA's oversight office at Los Alamos said that federal permission in particular has not been granted for renewed work with plutonium liquids, which is needed to purify plutonium taken from older warheads for reuse, normally a routine practice.

Not exact matches

Before the US military's Peacekeeper missile went out of service in 2005, for instance, it could be armed with up to 10 warheads — each of which could hit a different target.

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.

«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.

Enhanced warheads, for example, are dozens of times more powerful than the relatively crude bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For Iron Dome, videos of interception attempts lack enough detail to confirm the rockets» warheads were destroyed.

Scaling the damage rates relative to warhead weight can adjust for these differences.

But Mike Elleman, a leading missile expert, wrote on 38 North, a website for North Korea analysis, that despite the missile's size it still probably couldn't send a heavy nuclear warhead as far as the US's east coast.

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.

Wright said ICBMs burn rocket fuel for about three to five minutes before deploying a warhead on top.

The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).

The B61 became the basis for a number of other warheads in American service.

There is intelligence suggesting that Iran has worked on weapon designs, but not that it has developed a delivery system for any potential nuclear warhead.

The two experiences differ in detail (swap in global warming and dirty bombs for acid rain and Soviet warheads) but each was labelled a hopeless mess.

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.

Mr. Lloyd also has the credentials for a critique, having written two books on antimissile warhead design during two decades at Raytheon, a top antimissile contractor.

He was looking for unambiguous signs of success: pairs of fireballs (at night) or smoke clouds (during the day) that formed as speeding fragments blew up a warhead.

I then adjust the rates to control for the effect of changes in rocket warhead sizes from one conflict to another.

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.»

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

A typical modern warhead is guaranteed to be in service for 30 years.

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

Therefore it is proper for Scotland to give notice to the UK that the nuclear - armed submarines and warheads must be removed from Scottish soil.

Candidates for cut off points might be: Numbers of weapons mated to delivery systems at any one time, numbers of warheads bigger than the minimum that allows economical maintenance (what would that number be?

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.

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.

A design contract for the warheads is due to be signed during the parliamentary recess, and the nuclear weapons were excluded from the defence review announced last week.

The «Defending the Future — UK Defence in the 21st Century» policy motion opposed «like - for - like» replacement, and proposed instead a «credible contingency posture» — sounds very Lib Dem already somehow — involving a reduced number of subs and warheads.

If we contained the ol' Soviet Union, with 30k + nuclear warheads, then surely we can contain a future 2 nuclear warhead Iran.Santorum and Cain will not survive for long; and deservedly so.

The bill for replacing the Trident nuclear deterrent has already reached # 3bn after it emerged the UK has been developing a more destructive warhead.

«Anyone concerned about keeping down the cost of Trident should surely welcome attempts to eke as much life out of the existing warhead by modifying it rather than going straight for a replacement,» he said.

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

When further developed for a possible arms control application, the technique would add bubbles from irradiation of a putative warhead to those already preloaded into detectors by the warhead's owner.

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.

Prior to the test, the inspector would randomly select which preloaded detectors to use with which putative warhead, and which preload to use with a warhead that was, for example, selected from the owner's active inventory.

But if the total count for the preload plus warhead irradiation did not match the no - object count, the inspected weapon would be exposed as a spoof.

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.

The bomb, dubbed the Reliable Replacement Warhead, «is the next logical step,» announced the Department of Energy, which sponsors the design competition and is expected to select a winning model for development — pending congressional approval — later this year.

In a real - world scenario, ground - based missile defense systems have to cope with near - impossible conditions: For instance, in addition to releasing a weapon - carrying warhead, a missile might deploy a cloud of decoys that look similar to a real warhead, confounding the defense system's attempts to take out the real thing.

That means a hoax warhead — where one variety of uranium was swapped for another, for example — won't pass the test.

Missiles carrying nuclear warheads, for example, could be thrown off course if no allowance was made for mountain ranges or valleys.

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.

Based on the available data, we are confident that the current program of stockpile stewardship, with some modifications, can preserve the U.S. arsenal for the foreseeable future and that it isn't necessary — and may even be counterproductive — to pursue new warheads.

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?

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?»

The mass of wiring and circuitry built into the wall of the Minuteman I rocket, just below the warhead, is the first digital flight computer for nuclear missiles.

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.