Sentences with phrase «warheads by»

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.

But Wright doubts such a weapon, also known as a hydrogen bomb, will be miniaturized into a missile - ready warhead by North Korea anytime soon.

«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.

You miss the incoming warhead by a lot and everyone dies.

Not exact matches

Better known by the abbreviation ICBMs, such missiles can do exactly what their name implies: deliver a weapon, like a nuclear warhead or nerve agents, to another continent.

Some of the packages targeted by regulators look like fruit juices, Warhead candies and Nilla Wafers.

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 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.

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

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.

By all accounts, the interceptor's warhead fires when its sensors indicate an enemy rocket nearby — an encounter zone said to be up to several feet wide.

Into the afternoon, US stocks slipped further (S&P -13 to 2656, telecom lags), hurt by comments from Israel's Netanyahu (Iran lied, had secret project to design, produce and test warheads - hopes to sway Trump to restore sanctions on Iran).

By that reasoning I should be able to buy and carry around a shoulder fired rocket launcher with nuclear tipped warhead rockets.

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 Mr Ingram estimated that the submarines could feasibly cost between # 18 billion and # 20 billion by themselves, far above the original # 11 billion estimate - with the new warheads and missile upgrades adding extra costs.

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

Whilst there is no confirmation about how these facilities have been used by the government, theoretically, they would enable the production of new warheads as long as there is enough base materials (e.g. uranium) available.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Boosted by a rocket engine, a ballistic missile sails into space before releasing a warhead that plummets to its target under the force of gravity.

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.

(As Dulles's doctrine evolved, the number of warheads would jump to 3,500 by late 1957, double to 7,000 by 1959, hit 12,305 by 1961, and top 23,000 two years later.)

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.

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.

A government - commissioned independent review by a panel of scientists known as JASON estimated that the plutonium primaries in the current warheads will last a minimum of a century in storage, however, and, therefore, recommended that no action be taken other than routine maintenance, such as replacing surrounding circuitry and parts as they age — a core function of the Lifetime Extension Program the W76s are currently undergoing.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal ever since.

Possibilities include a warhead diverted from the U.S. arsenal or smuggled into the country by terrorists, or a bomb delivered by an enemy state such as North Korea, which has threatened to nuke the White House.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

Analysis of the seismic waves caused by last week's blast put the yield of the warhead tested at between 50 and 100 kilotons.

He says the test suggests that China is following the US and the Soviet Union by trying to fit several warheads onto one missile.

Ordinarily, new warhead pits are produced steadily by technicians at PF - 4 for installation in modernized weapons, to replace some of those pits withdrawn for testing, and to keep workers there trained and agile.

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.

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

The fuel supplied 10 % of U.S. electricity needs for two decades while permanently eliminating 20,000 warheads worth of weapons - grade material by the time the last shipment of fuel was received at the end of 2013.

But that's just the tip of a very large, very lethal iceberg involving neo-Nazis and a nuclear warhead smuggled into the U.S. by terrorists.

From there, the whole X-Men connection continues, including the return of Negasonic Teenage Warhead (NTW, played by Brianna Hildebrand) and her new one - note Japanese girlfriend Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna from Oh, Lucy!).

Deadpool 2 is directed by David Leitch, and stars Reynolds as Deadpool, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Stefan Kapičić as the voice of Colossus, and Karan Soni as Dopinder, with newcomers Zazie Beetz as Domino, Josh Brolin as Cable, Julian Dennison in an unknown role, and Jack Kesy as a villain widely thought to be Black Tom Cassidy.

To that end, Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) are the only X-family members that make an appearance save some hilarious cameos from Hugh Jackman.

The warheads are being developed by a German scientist named Teller who fell into the hands of a criminal corporate entity based in Italy.

There are appearances by X-Men both second -(Colossus) and third - tier (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), and more than one joke about how they couldn't afford to feature bigger stars given the movie's budget.

Meanwhile, it was recently confirmed Negasonic Teenage Warhead (played by Brianna Hildebrand) and Colossus (played by Stefan Kapicic) will return for the forthcoming sequel.

We also have returning Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) to make his homecoming feel oh so sweet.

However, in the mid-credits scene, the device is repaired by Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) and her girlfriend Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna).

Instead, they've pointed to a classic Japanese assassin created by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller as the inspiration for Negasonic Teenage Warhead's girlfriend.

Assisted by Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, he quickly learns that having some help from the X-Men isn't such a bad thing.

But when he learns that his country needs him to find a nuclear warhead that's been stolen by his sworn enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, MacGruber figures he's the only one tough enough for the job.