intercontinental ballistic missile

NOUN
  1. a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
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How To Use intercontinental ballistic missile In A Sentence

  • The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
  • Texas Instruments were already involved in secret military work - Kilby worked on the first Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • In addition, people also devised a special dye with deadly missiles and intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • If they had intercontinental ballistic missiles and hydrogen bombs, they'd use those.
  • This system allowed Looking Glass to transmit launch codes to the intercontinental ballistic missiles in their underground silos should ground launch control centers become disabled.
  • The air force is also responsible for the intercontinental ballistic missiles deployed in silos in the western United States.
  • It is also important that each deployed and nondeployed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) or heavy bomber will have assigned to it a unique code identifier that will be included in notifications any time the ICBM or SLBM or heavy bomber is moved or changes status. Learning From Experience on Arms Control
  • The proposed system is supposed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles minutes after launch, while their rocket boosters are still burning.
  • An intercontinental ballistic missile with a thermonuclear weapon would be deterrent enough.
  • This force is composed of a large number of inter-continental bombers capable of carrying several multimegaton bombs, augmented by hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering multimegaton warheads. The Future of Canadian Defence in the Nuclear Era
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