nuclear missile
Example Sentences
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“Any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere” would be seen by the U.S. as “requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The deployment of Soviet nuclear missile sites on the island triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when Washington and Moscow came close to war.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
It wasn’t a nuclear missile that failed to work, it was an interceptor.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
“Marty Supreme” “ ‘A House of Dynamite’ is divided into three parts, each one expanding and illuminating the movie’s unsettling scenario – there’s a nuclear missile of unknown origin heading toward Chicago.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025
As one of his final acts, Gorbachev passed the Soviet nuclear codes—which could initiate a nuclear missile launch—to Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
