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How to use the word warheads in a Sentence?

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What this really represents is North Korea's steady progress toward the ability to put multiple nuclear warheads on targets in North Korea in the event of a war.

Jeffrey Lewis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

China may fill these out eventually but in the interim, when they are not all filled out, would The US be able to distinguish with certainty which silos are filled and which aren't and would we have to commit to destroying all of these no matter what ? If that is the case then The US has to commit maybe twice the number of warheads to all of the silos, if you are the US this forces you to re-think nuclear planning.

Vipin Narang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism.

John Venable

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Adding more nuclear warheads to a single missile can better assure them of an ability to penetrate American missile defense and, if they're worried that their warheads might have reliability issues, more warheads increases the odds that one warhead will successfully detonate.

Ankit Panda

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

North Korea has had a decade-long nuclear testing sequence where they have presumably learned a lot about designs, they probably do not need full blown tests to go into serial production of warheads. And they can improve components and perfect designs with subcritical and hydrodynamic tests which we wouldn't be able to monitor or detect.

Vipin Narang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Developments in hypersonic propulsion wivolutionize rewarfare by providing the ability to strike targets more quickly, at greater distances, and with greater firepower, china is also developing increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile warheads and hypersonic glide vehicles in an attempt to counter ballistic missile defense systems.

Robert Ashley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Do you want to do it in five years when they have warheads all over the place, every one of them pointing to New York City, to Washington and every one of us, is that when you want to do it, or do you want to do something now ? you'd better do it now. And if they think you're serious … they'll negotiate and it'll never come to that.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When The MHTK makes impact with the incoming round, The MHTK causes the threat to explode. But unlike THAAD, which can destroy missiles carrying nuclear warheads, The MHTK is designed to destroy mortars, rockets, artillery and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The U.S. Army and international customers have made it clear today's global security environment demands agile, close-range solutions.

Tim Cahill

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Do you want to do it in five years when they have warheads all over the place, every one of them pointing to New York City, to Washington and every one of us, is that when you want to do it, or do you want to do something now? you'd better do it now. And if they think you're serious … they'll negotiate and it'll never come to that.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The security situation around our country is getting increasingly severe, we have just talked about Syria. There is a possibility that North Korea already has a capability to put sarin on warheads to strike the ground.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We have just talked about Syria. There is a possibility that North Korea already has a capability to put sarin on warheads to strike the ground.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Deploying nuclear warheads in Kaliningrad would be a separate and serious phase of escalation.

Mikhail Barabanov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have less nuclear warheads, but the risk of them being used is growing.

Igor Ivanov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One interceptor versus one warhead in mid-course is a failing proposition because they can produce more than we can ever possibly afford to put into the ground, we're going to need more capability to engage the threat throughout its flight, keep them on the ground, kill them on the (launch) rails, kill them in boost phase and then get more warheads in space in mid-course.

Bill Gortney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Some of the missiles carried 24 warheads and one tonne of TNT.

Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If they can deploy an operational submarine that could launch ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads, it would give them a pretty credible second strike capability, and it's difficult to defend against, it would give them the kind of deterrent that they have said they wish to have.

Daniel Pinkston

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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