Such rockets are technically similar to intercontinental ballistic missiles, which could reach the United States, she adds.
In 1972, the United States deployed 1, 054 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) carrying fewer than 1, 500 independently targetable warheads.
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The multi-stage technology involved in this feat is applicable to intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Yuri Dolgoruky is the first of Russia's new Borei class of subs, with 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles on board.
One of the country's top generals, according to published reports, claims Pyongyang has nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that are ready to be fired.
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Iran has already tested intercontinental ballistic missiles by using them to send satellites into space, much like the Soviet Union did with Sputnik.
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Defense will continue to be outlawed against intercontinental ballistic missiles, while defense will be encouraged against their less capable cousins, theater ballistic missiles.
This is ocourring as Russia prepares to field a new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including one type that can carry up to 15 warheads.
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Nikolai Solovtsov, chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces, told a Russian press agency that the exercise will involve launches of "several" intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
"We've done a pretty good job of maintaining our delivery platforms, " the general says, by which he means submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles and intercontinental bombers.
The tests included launches of short, medium and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Monday's launch means the North Koreans are a big step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to Richard Speier, a former missile-proliferation expert at the Pentagon.
The White House has just announced that the Bush Administration has struck a bargain with Senator Sam Nunn, Congressman Les Aspin and others concerning mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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By dropping in Wyoming its long-held insistence that mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles be totally banned under START, the United States has greatly facilitated Soviet cheating on that agreement.
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Ukraine and Kazakhstan demonstrated a similar pattern of cooperation when they decided to rid themselves of the nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles and heavy bombers inherited from the Soviet Union.
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Given that such rockets use the same technology as intercontinental ballistic missiles, the launch is really cover for North Korea to enhance its ability to fire nuclear weapons at distant enemies.
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China's desire to put people in space goes back to the 1960s, when the country was developing its intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads, then regarded as necessary accoutrements of superpowerdom.
The first leg of the New Triad incorporates conventional capabilities together with the traditional strategic Nuclear Triad, which is composed of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) and long-range nuclear-armed bombers.
"Intercontinental ballistic missiles and various other missiles, which have already set their striking targets, are now armed with lighter, smaller and diversified nuclear warheads and are placed on a standby status, " Kang said.
The new North Korean test is more alarming than its previous two efforts in 2006 and 2009 considering that Pongyang now boasts that it has constructed intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the U.S. mainland.
The United States might still not have intercontinental ballistic missiles and reliable space launchers today if it had responded to the succession of early flight test failures in those programs by terminating, instead of redoubling, the effort.
The abandonment last September of a longstanding American demand that all mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles be totally banned by a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, thereby ensuring that the verifiability and the strategic value of such an accord will be vastly reduced.
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As the "realists" claim that the US has no option other than their failed appeasement policies, back in the real world, this week military officials from the US's Pacific Command warned that North Korea may supply Iran with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
In the weeks leading up to this summit, it also has been openly stated that Moscow would like the number of deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched missiles (SLBMS), and strategic bombers to be reduced "several times" below the current limit of 1, 600.
For example, in the face of Soviet demands, Secretary of State James Baker last September abandoned the Reagan position that the START treaty should ban mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, even though the effect of doing so will be enormously to complicate the verifiability of that agreement.
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On 18 October, he supplied new evidence from both American and Russian sources that the Russian military is engaged in the fabrication and construction of new road-mobile and fixed-site land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with multiple reentry vehicles (MIRVs), among other, troubling offensive activities.
On 18 October, he supplied new evidence -- from both American and Russian sources -- that the Russian military is engaged in the fabrication and construction of new road-mobile and fixed-site land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with multiple reentry vehicles (MIRVs), among other, troubling offensive activities.
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Thus, the U.S. has sought to organize its nuclear forces so that no enemy can launch a disarming first strike, mainly by fielding three distinctly different types of weapons: manned bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in hardened silos, and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles on stealthy Trident submarines.
As you deploy more capability, interceptor capability and more ships with radars, the ability to protect more and more of Europe will increase with the threat moving from short- to medium-range missiles today to intermediate-range ballistic missiles, and in phase four of our system to intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2020.
Consider for a moment, the impact on the U.S. and allied commitment to resist Iraqi aggression if Saddam Hussein had had intercontinental-range ballistic missiles.
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