warhead
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While the United States and Russia have thousands of nuclear warheads each, in Europe only France and Britain have atomic weapons, with the combined total in the hundreds.
From Barron's
Over eight years since its last nuclear test triggered an earthquake below Mount Mantap, North Korea has been looking for ways to harness this power in smaller, more practical warheads.
From Barron's
The New Start agreement capped the number of U.S. and Russian long-range nuclear warheads at 1,550 and didn’t cover short-range nuclear weapons.
This setup, the report said, would allow launching sites to be “relatively invulnerable” to enemy warheads, requiring a “massive blanket Soviet thermonuclear attack” to destroy Iceworm launchers.
From Los Angeles Times
The deal capped the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads at 1,550 for the US and Russia.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
