The decision to use nuclear weapons, regardless of the size of the warhead, is always a political one. From Wordnik.com. [Remember the new logo that replaced the old Civil Defense one?] Reference
There is also a nuclear warhead, which is not exported. From Wordnik.com. [06 « November « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference
The warhead is the largest ever fitted in a U.S. missile. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition]
A thing, people will take up the challenge to prove them wrong, and even the threat of SDI sparked innovation in warhead delivery vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [6 posts from April 2010] Reference
The plume calculated is for a megaton warhead, which is somewhat larger than I was discussing, but consistent with the stated Iran mission. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Our Founding Fathers, Faith and the Democrats] Reference
Later it was found that the warhead wasn't powerful enough. From Wordnik.com. [Up in the Sky, An Unblinking Eye] Reference
The caption: "Tell Mr. Annan we found another empty warhead.". From Wordnik.com. [Shooting Sacred Cows] Reference
So, the rocket might be destroyed but the warhead keeps going. From Wordnik.com. [Missile Defense: Does It Work?] Reference
Uranium must be enriched more than 90 percent for use in a nuclear warhead. From Wordnik.com. [Russia to load fuel for Iranian reactor] Reference
Crucially, he was on the team that designed the trigger for the W88 warhead. From Wordnik.com. [Into The Sunshine] Reference
That's if the terrorists haven't gotten their hands on an actual nuclear warhead. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Countdown to Zero] Reference
But the military will not accept a new nuclear warhead in their arsenals unless it has been tested. From Wordnik.com. [Q&Amp;A: 'This Is A Dream I Have'] Reference
Vladimir Belugin, a warhead designer who is now the center's administrative director, asked Younger. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's Nuclear Secrets] Reference
Among the secrets: ·W-88: This "miniaturized" warhead is the most sophisticated in the U.S. aresenal. From Wordnik.com. [The Nuclear Spy Case Suffers A Meltdown] Reference
The Taiwan-born, U. S.-educated engineer worked on a team developing the trigger for the W-88 warhead. From Wordnik.com. [Open Secret] Reference
One such project: putting a GPS-steering conventional warhead on a Trident D-5 submarine-launched ICBM. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new and I'd watch you with my thumb above the button. From Wordnik.com. [Making Josh Ritter a Household Name Everywhere] Reference
The warhead, tumbling randomly, struck a flimsy warehouse that had been converted to a barracks for a U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Final Push] Reference
This is a particularly tricky problem, since no one wants to use guns or explosives around a nuclear warhead. From Wordnik.com. [Soon, 'Phasers On Stun'] Reference
He wouldn't say where it came from, but he did say it was a fire-and-forget system that had a tandem warhead. From Wordnik.com. ['THE BLOCKADE IS A JOKE'] Reference
In the mid - to late '80s, Chinese operatives allegedly gained knowledge of the top-secret W-88 nuclear warhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Next China Battle] Reference
The former enemies agreed to slash their warhead arsenals to 1,550 each and also reduce missile launchers and bombers. From Wordnik.com. [Ridding the World of Nukes] Reference
In the first real trial of the defense system, in June 1997, the interceptor had to pick out a warhead from eight decoys. From Wordnik.com. [A Shot In The Dark] Reference
So designers added a sleeve around the warhead that would fragment upon detonation into thousands of flying razor blades. From Wordnik.com. [Up in the Sky, An Unblinking Eye] Reference
They were Iranian-built Ababil unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), capable of carrying an 88-pound warhead for up to 150 miles. From Wordnik.com. [Hizbullah's Worrisome Weapon] Reference
An ICBM closes on its target at more than 15,000mph -- giving it the energy to drive a warhead hundreds of feet underground. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
He dismissed charges that China stole U.S. nuclear-warhead secrets as "a fantasy, like something out of the Arabian Nights.". From Wordnik.com. [After You, Pal] Reference
Plague and typhus are too unstable to be stored and packed into a warhead; cholera can be spread only through food and water. From Wordnik.com. [The Germ Warfare Alert] Reference
China was desperate to sell Pakistan parts for the M-11 missile, capable of carrying an 1,100-pound nuclear warhead 186 miles. From Wordnik.com. [Psst! Wanna Buy A Missile?] Reference
It also included a design virtually identical to the W88, a state-of-the-art thermonuclear warhead built for U.S. missile subs. From Wordnik.com. [Into The Sunshine] Reference
The computer gives the stubby wings and tail fins a final adjustment, bringing the warhead to the target with unnerving accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind Of A Missile] Reference
Isn't it hilarious to imagine that you can basically withstand the force of 10,000 nuclear warheads with only one nuclear warhead?. From Wordnik.com. [Ahmadinejad’s Nuclear Offer] Reference
They contend that the new treaty will help each side get a more accurate count by assigning an ID number to each warhead and launcher. From Wordnik.com. [START expiration ends U.S. inspection of Russian nuclear bases] Reference
And in fact, the largest single loss of American life in uniform occurred when a Scud warhead fell on over 100 people near an airbase. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering The First Gulf War, 20 Years On] Reference
They contend that the new treaty will help each side get a more accurate count, by assigning an ID number to each warhead and launcher. From Wordnik.com. [START expiration ends U.S. inspection of Russian nuclear bases] Reference
The White House insisted that Powell misspoke in revealing the warhead intel; State Department officials insisted he had not misspoken. From Wordnik.com. [The World According to Rice] Reference
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