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 Yuri Dolgoruky is the first of Russia's new Borei class of subs, with 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles on board.

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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.

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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).

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The tests included launches of short, medium and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Under the Obama plan, dozens of Aegis vessels will eventually be upgraded to defend against the full range of ballistic threats, including intercontinental-range missiles.

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Some 25 countries already possess ballistic missiles, and several of them are reaching for intercontinental range.

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