Sentences with phrase «with nuclear warheads»

Synopsis: After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat.

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.

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.

Each can hold up to eight Trident missiles armed with nuclear warheads.

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.

Experts have told Business Insider that if the US assesses that North Korea may fire a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, the military may look to shoot the missile down.

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

But if a missile comes screaming in but doesn't detonate, that's a falling object, which is a covered peril, possibly even if the missile is armed with a nuclear warhead.

Not exact matches

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.

Tillerson's remarks came two weeks after North Korea conducted a test with a missile that could potentially carry a nuclear warhead to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

«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.

Elleman estimates that the missiles would struggle even to reach the US's west coast with a reasonably size nuclear warhead aboard.

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.

They can carry either 166 bomblets, a 1,000 - pound conventional warhead, or the W80 nuclear warhead with a 5 - 150 kt yield.

North Korea, the dictator ruled nation has been threatening the US and its allies with a possible missile attack, which may also have a nuclear warhead...

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

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

The same was true with the Space Race, which the Russians failed to disclose any failures publicly and used rockets that were entirely devised to carry 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?»

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.

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.

With a nuclear weapon, you just fly a warhead out there and detonate it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Typically, this process would take many years and several tests, although the collaboration with American weapon designers has helped to speed up Britain's programme in comparison with, say, the French (who carry out more nuclear tests per warhead design than the other nuclear weapons state).

Marvin Adams, a nuclear physicist at Texas A&M who has been a consultant to Los Alamos's work with warhead pits, said that «If they continue on their path to get everything back up and running, I am pretty comfortable.»

The experiments were conducted on pristine foam that was never exposed to heat and samples that were subjected to increasing temperatures that would be encountered with the thermal decay of a nuclear warhead.

We begin with the theft of a trainful of Russian nuclear warheads, in a beautifully produced opening sequence that takes us from a church in Sarajevo to the Russian countryside.

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).

A traitorous Air Force major hijacks two nuclear warheads with the intent to extort money from the government.

An Air Force pilot matches wits with a renegade colleague who is threatening to detonate a pair of nuclear warheads.

Their last desperate plan is to launch a nuclear warhead off the Pacific coast with the hopes of attracting the monster trio and blasting them to bits.

After the sinister Deakins steals two nuclear warheads to extort money from the government, it's up to Hale, with the help of a plucky park ranger (Samantha Mathis) to stop his former friend.

The goal of the game is to drive a fully - armed nuclear warhead (that's stowed in the trunk of their vintage 1950s convertible) into the center of a city overflowing with zombies.

Starting off with nuclear proliferation, the game discusses the history of failed nuclear energy development and poor disposal policies and procedures for nuclear warheads.

LFTRs consume 100 % of the thorium fed to them and can be started with spent fuel rods or old nuclear warheads.

He struggled with the fact that his friends worked the mines that destroyed the prairies near Riverton, WY... and the idea that their work would be used to arm nuclear warheads.

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Several scientists working in a top - secret nuclear warhead facility in the closed town of Sarov have been arrested by Russian authorities for allegedly attempting to mine Bitcoin with the facility's supercomputer.