Is it armed with a conventional warhead or a nuclear warhead?
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However, it carries only one warhead, as its original three-warhead design was limited by nuclear treaties with Russia.
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Once the missile leaves the atmosphere and the warhead releases, the balloons inflate, and one of them surrounds the nuclear warhead.
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It only has three high-yield options: a several hundred kiloton warhead for its solid-fueled ICBMs and SLBMs, a 2-megaton warhead for its liquid-fueled intermediate range missile and a 5-megaton warhead for its liquid-fueled ICBM.
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead Powers: Negasonic Teenage Warhead is able to generate explosive blasts from her body, essentially turning herself into a human bomb.
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It also "completes development and production of the W76-2 warhead," which is the so-called low-yield nuclear warhead the administration is building.
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"If it was lighter than the actual warhead the missile would carry," he noted, the calculated ranges for a real warhead would be shorter.
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But really, the appeal of dressing up as Negasonic Teenage Warhead is, well, telling everyone who asks that you're dressed up as Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
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Since then, incremental improvements have yielded variants with a reportedly greater range, warhead weight, warhead type and accuracy (or a reportedly diminishing circular error probable).
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Hitting and destroying a flying nuclear warhead with a warhead or a laser beam is a technological feat that we cannot accomplish reliably and cheaply.
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"The real question is: how small North Korea has made a nuclear warhead and whether it can carry a warhead like that on the missiles it makes."
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Because the warhead is now outside the atmosphere, the light balloons travel just as fast as the heavy warhead, and they all have the same radar signature.
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The North claimed the rocket was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, although there are doubts whether the country could build a warhead small enough to fit into a missile.
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Iran's missiles are "not designed for the capability of carrying a nuclear warhead" but rather are "designed to carry a normal warhead in the field of legitimate defense," he said.
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Actually, the warhead had a hole taken out of the exterior of the warhead just so that the Russians could come and verify that there was nothing in it every year.
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Number one: that the overall size of the warhead is substantially smaller, if this is a hydrogen device, than the equivalent size of a warhead if this were an atomic device.
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What's missing: Miniaturization details: We don't know to what extent North Korea has miniaturized a nuclear warhead — South Korea has assessed that it's likely not technologically capable of miniaturizing a warhead enough.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in March that his country has miniaturized a nuclear warhead and ordered tests of a nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
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But they said the North could have launched its missile this week with a very light mock warhead or no payload, sending it farther than it could go with a real warhead.
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"A missile carrying a lower-yield warhead like the W76-2 would look exactly the same to an adversary — it's impossible to distinguish which type of warhead it's carrying," the organization recently wrote.
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North Korea said it could carry a large nuclear warhead.
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Yeah, there was a missile, there was not a warhead.
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How close is North Korea to mounting a nuclear warhead?
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North Korea claimed to have detonated a nuclear warhead Friday.
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Bolting a nuclear warhead to one poses no fundamental difficulties.
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Pyongyang says it successfully tested a nuclear warhead last year.
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All of these could, in theory, carry a nuclear warhead.
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Ability to miniaturize nuclear warhead advancing, says vice defense minister.
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The labeling of the warhead as the W23 is important.
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Basically, the head of the warhead is packed with balloons.
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The number of interceptors that can be fired at a single warhead is classified, but officials have been quoted as saying that they ultimately hope to direct three or four at each incoming warhead.
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The live nuclear warhead could come down on a neighboring country, or if the missile blew up on the launchpad — as has been known to happen — set off the nuclear warhead in North Korea.
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This suggests the precision strike was either a dud or the United States deliberately used an inert warhead to kill its target by high-velocity impact, avoiding possible civilian casualties with an explosive warhead.
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Most commercial sour beers are nowhere near WarHead levels of sour.
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It also announced it had miniaturized a warhead in early March.
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READ: Will North Korea's next missile test have a nuclear warhead?
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Last fall, the North said it successfully tested a nuclear warhead.
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Many were happy to see the return of Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
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We should also see if North Korea tests another nuclear warhead.
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North Korea says the missile could carry a large nuclear warhead.
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It was designed to carry a nuclear warhead to another continent.
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Above them, the warhead closed in at a few hundred knots.
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The Poseidon subs were equipped with 16 multiple-warhead ballistic missiles.
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It was evidently turned over without its warhead or guidance system.
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JL: It's a compact device that fits on a nuclear warhead.
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Kim said last week his country had miniaturized a nuclear warhead.
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Analysts have been uncertain about the ability of Pyongyang to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and get that warhead to survive the tremendous heat generated on the missile's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
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The official told CNN the military has been monitoring it since March 15, when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave orders to test a nuclear warhead and a ballistic rocket capable of launching a nuclear warhead.
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The committee would not give the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) $10 million for a so-called low yield nuclear warhead, nor would it give the Pentagon $19.6 million to support the warhead, dubbed that W76-2.
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Analysts warned that in its next long-range missile test, the North could launch a missile on a full ICBM trajectory and even carry a live nuclear warhead to demonstrate its mastery of warhead re-entry technology.
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The R9X, nicknamed the "flying Ginsu" by insiders, doesn't contain a warhead.
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The Kings had a nuclear warhead in its ranks: guitarist Willie Kizart.
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The downward trend in warhead numbers is a pillar of international stability.
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Today's word is "warhead": the part of the missile that actually explodes.
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The missiles consist of three parts: two motors and an explosive warhead.
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Each sub can carry 12 of the single-warhead JL-2 missiles.
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One Soviet model had a range of miles and a large warhead.
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But Congress absolutely should question the administration's calls to simultaneously fund—stay with me here—a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, a new nuclear bomber force, a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a new air-launched nuclear-tipped cruise missile, a new sea-launched nuclear-tipped cruise missile, nuclear capability for F-35 fighters, an overhauled gravity-dropped nuclear bomb, an overhauled cruise missile warhead, an updated sub-launched ballistic missile nuclear warhead, an overhauled ground-launched ballistic missile warhead, and another all-new sub-launched ballistic missile nuclear warhead.
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While miniaturization is critical, it does not in and of itself speak to the ability to mount the warhead on a missile, precisely target that missile, or ensure the warhead can even survive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
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"He instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips by further expanding engine production process and the production capacity of rocket warhead tips and engine jets," the news agency said of the visit.
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"He instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips by further expanding engine production process and the production capacity of rocket warhead tips and engine jets by carbon/carbon compound material," KCNA said.
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It remains unclear whether the North has a functioning warhead of that size.
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They keep gathering data through nuclear tests and working to standardize a warhead.
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Kim Jong Un inspects what North Korea claims to be a nuclear warhead.
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The Musudan would also be able to carry a 1.3-ton nuclear warhead.
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A conical Shahab-3 warhead was also identified in the Iranian nuclear archive.
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A conventional-warhead programme for Trident II was explored by America, but shelved.
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Initial analysis indicates there was one dummy warhead in the DPRK's November test.
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None of the missiles launched are thought to have carried a nuclear warhead.
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Pyongyang claimed the test showed that it's capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
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" It pointed out that the missile's warhead is "smaller and harder to hit.
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And it has a tandem warhead allowing it to defeat most reactive armor.
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There is nothing even close to the power of a modern thermonuclear warhead.
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The ban is designed to degrade the reliability of existing nuclear warhead arsenals.
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Scaling the damage rates relative to warhead weight can adjust for these differences.
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Their half-hearted case for this new warhead is fragile, bordering on specious.
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The 2628 budget for the LRSO and its nuclear warhead is $28503 million.
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The idea of a follow-on submarine launched warhead is not entirely new.
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When the thermonuclear warhead turned up missing, we were all frantic, of course.
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Another super-weapon revealed by Putin is a hypersonic maneuverable warhead called Avangard.
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The warhead didn't detonate; if it did, much of Arkansas wouldn't exist today.
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"Our estimates show that the Hwasong-14, using the publicly reported burn times for the upper rocket stage, could deliver a nuclear warhead only as far as Anchorage, Alaska if the warhead weighed 500 kilograms to 550 kilograms," the researchers wrote.
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Army information says a TOW Bunker Buster warhead consists of a blast type warhead designed to penetrate and then detonate inside Military Operations in Urban Terrain targets such as 8-inch double reinforced concrete, brick-over-block, and triple brick walls.
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But it has not mastered putting them on a warhead and accurately delivering them.
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Think of it like the stages of a rocket launching a satellite—or warhead.
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Worryingly, the vehicle can supposedly carry a nuclear warhead, according to the intelligence sources.
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Introducing a low-yield warhead increases the likelihood of a counter-strike strategic system.
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The Tomahawk can be equipped with a 1,000-pound conventional warhead, the Navy says.
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And it's also not clear that the regime has a functioning miniaturized nuclear warhead.
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Kim has vowed another nuclear warhead test soon, which would be the country's fifth.
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It could carry a warhead weighing about 1,500 to 2,200 pounds, South Korea says.
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The facility housed a nuclear warhead from 1961 to 1965, when it was decommissioned.
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What if he test fires a missile with a warhead even into the ocean?
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When the interceptor missile goes to hit the warhead, it finds dozens of balloons.
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In separate images, Kim observed the object described by KCNA as a warhead tip.
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The U.S. intercepted a mock warhead Tuesday over the Pacific in a demonstration of the U.S. missile defense program, per the AP. The mock warhead was launched from a Pacific atoll, and the interceptor rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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The Hero 120 drone is man-portable, air launched and features a Javelin multipurpose warhead.
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Reporters asked him whether the test means North Korea can now mount a nuclear warhead.
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She is probably most recognized for playing Negasonic Teenage Warhead in Deadpool and the sequel.
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In September of last year, North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear warhead.
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It says it has mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
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In his statement, Rood did not say when and where the new warhead was deployed.
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First, they must make a nuclear warhead small enough to be accommodated on the missile.
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A warhead of that size is meant to destroy hardened targets such as concrete shelters.
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The GMD is meant to destroy an approaching warhead by firing interceptors from underground silos.
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Last time, they all knitted warhead-tip cozies that say "Gone Fission" for their husbands.
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The Soviet Union reached its peak warhead supply in 1986, when it had around 45,000.
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The IAEA concluded that Iran secretly researched a nuclear warhead until 2009, which Tehran denies.
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How: By producing a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit onto a missile. http://bit.
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State-run media also said the missile's warhead was electronically linked to a targeting system.
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The average Gaza rocket warhead consequently was about half the size of those from Lebanon.
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After traveling more than 1,200 miles, its warhead exploded at an altitude exceeding 10,000 feet.
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The RKV is not a warhead in the typical sense because it does not explode.
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Intercepting a warhead using missile defenses runs other dangers, White House officials have been told.
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Mr. Shin said there was talk of building a Hyunmoo with a two-ton warhead.
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Pyongyang also claimed to have miniaturized a nuclear warhead to fit on a ballistic missile.
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The rules are simple: First, never read a novel that involves a missing thermonuclear warhead.
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Both Moscow and Beijing reportedly include nuclear warhead testing as components of their modernization programs.
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When a ballistic missile is launched, the warhead separates from the rocket early in flight.
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A ballistic missile is a guided projectile which delivers a warhead to a predetermined target.
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They were also debating how close the country had come to acquiring the ability to build a warhead that could survive the intense heat while re-entering the atmosphere, as well as a guidance system capable of delivering a warhead close to a target.
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In 1980, during a routine maintenance check on a warhead buried deep underground in Damascus, Arkansas, one of the nuclear technicians accidentally dropped a socket, which fell deep into the belly of the silo where the warhead was housed, knocking a hole in its side.
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Trump has threatened to cancel the deal, potentially allowing Iran to eventually develop an atomic warhead.
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Soon, the Kim regime will have the capability to hit the U.S. with a nuclear warhead .
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That made the kill vehicle more likely to miss the warhead it was designed to intercept.
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One of the things that any properly attired warhead should have is a re-entry vehicle.
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Using four interceptors against one warhead is assumed to give a 97% chance of a hit.
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It also tested the North's capability to carry a "large-size heavy nuclear warhead", KCNA said.
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The same technology used to launch a satellite into orbit could potentially deliver a nuclear warhead.
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Pyongyang's assertions that it is able to miniaturize a nuclear warhead have never been independently verified.
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Once the warhead is small enough to not affect the ICBM's range, another key question remains.
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North Korea continues to steadily march toward combining a nuclear warhead with advanced ballistic missile technology.
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But the missile's warhead did not swing back down to earth with a clean, predictable arc.
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The warhead detonated so close to the domestic terminal that customers jumped out of their seats.
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No reentry vehicle is needed because the warhead is detonated at high-altitude, above the atmosphere.
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Russia successfully tested the weapon, which could carry a nuclear warhead, twice in 2016, sources said.
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Frequent testing helped U.S. designers use plutonium more efficiently and experiment with many different warhead designs.
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Its pineapple shaped warhead at the end of the launcher had formidable blast and fragmentation effect.
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They note that no mock weapon has moved nearly as fast as a true enemy warhead.
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The latest Trump administration budget requested included an addition to the nuclear arsenal: the W93 warhead.
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North Korea is also still unable to shrink a nuclear warhead to mount on an ICBM.
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After it arcs into space, its warhead separates, falling back through Earth's atmosphere to a target.
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U.S. military commanders said Pyongyang's actions could include test firing an ICBM alongside nuclear warhead tests.
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This week, it was reported that the intelligence community now assesses that the North Korean regime, led by Kim Jong Un (KJU), has achieved production of a miniaturized nuclear warhead — providing KJU with the capability to deliver such a warhead on one of his ballistic missile systems.
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He said the malfunction of the warhead as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere "casts doubt" on the North's ability to shield a nuclear warhead from the blistering heat and vibrations as it heads to its target at the high speeds that intercontinental ballistic missiles typically achieve.
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While the North demonstrated in 2017 that its fleet could likely reach parts of the United States, the country still has not shown it could design a warhead that would survive the heat and huge forces that come with re-entry of a warhead into the atmosphere.
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That was the beginning of an eight-month-long investigation into public and not so public evidence that the United States was experimenting with a new form of missile defense, one that didn't rely exclusively on trying to hit a warhead in midflight with another warhead.
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The number of such weapons peaked at 950 in 1967; the final warhead was withdrawn in 1991.
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This doesn't mean that President Donald Trump will suddenly launch a nuclear warhead and unleash nuclear armageddon.
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Both can carry chemical, biological, high-explosive, or even nuclear payloads — provided the warhead is small enough.
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North Korea shocked the world in September when it claimed to have tested a miniaturized nuclear warhead.
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In contrast, Deadpool 2's matter-of-factness surrounding Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio's relationship is refreshing.
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Sam Greaves, the MDA's director, told Reuters the defense met expectations and shot down the incoming warhead.
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Pyongyang followed the September missile launch with the test explosion of a nuclear warhead later that week.
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North Korea is believed to be working on miniaturizing a nuclear warhead to mount on a missile.
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The Trump administration called for the low-yield warhead as part of its 85033 Nuclear Posture Review.
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Unknown deployments: In his statement, Rood did not say when and where the new warhead was deployed.
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"It seems very plausible to me," Lewis wrote last year, that North Korea had developed a warhead.
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On September 9, 2016, North Korea's official news agency announced it had tested a miniaturized nuclear warhead.
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The rogue state claimed it is now able to hit the American mainland with a nuclear warhead.
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It's reportedly tipped with a "super-large heavy warhead," greatly increasing the country's fire power against enemies.
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Kim Jong Un guided an "environmental simulation for re-entry by the warhead tip," the report said.
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The North said it had mastered the ability to mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile.
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Kim still wants a missile, fitted with a miniaturized nuclear warhead, that can reach the US mainland.
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The launched vehicle then releases a projectile meant to hit and destroy the warhead in mid-air.
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Analysts said its range was intercontinental and might send a warhead plummeting down on the West Coast.
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North Korea is also assumed by US intelligence to have a functioning warhead they have never tested.
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This time-tested bad boy can deliver a shaped-charge warhead against a target 7.5 miles away.
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Long-range ballistic missiles can be used to deliver a miniaturized nuclear warhead thousands of miles away.
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A new technology developed by MIT researchers can tell whether a nuclear warhead is real or fake.
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North Korea can also continue to improve its warhead and ballistic designs without conducting tests, Narang added.
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Published reports state an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead can strike within half an hour.
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The Rodong can carry a warhead weighing 1,540 to 2,200 pounds, according to the South Korean military.
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If you thought firing a nuclear warhead was complicated, just try triggering the U.S. Senate's nuclear option.
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South Korea is reportedly looking to increase its ballistic missile firepower to a 1-ton conventional warhead.
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What will he tweet when the first North Korean nuclear warhead is detonated over Tokyo or Anchorage?
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Pakistan is rapidly expanding its arsenal, increasing the possibility that a warhead could fall into terrorist hands.
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He also said Russia had developed an "invincible" missile that can deliver a warhead at hypersonic speed.
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But extraction of plutonium and developing a weapon, and weaponizing a warhead are two completely different things.
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Could it be that the missing thermonuclear warhead and the chief inspector were one and the same?
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An essential element of any nuclear program is the ability to deliver a warhead via ballistic missiles.
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Pakistan is rapidly expanding its arsenal, increasing the possibility that a warhead could fall into terrorist hands.
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According to one official, it's the combination of a missile and a warhead that is most worrisome.
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It also calls for the development of a low-yield warhead for ballistic missiles fired from submarines.
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Read more: China and Russia condemn missile test Regarding how far and how fast it can travel, military analysts in the West previously assessed the Pukguksong-1 of being capable of carrying a 1.5-ton warhead nearly 450 kilometers, or a 1-ton warhead between 600-800 kilometers.
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While the North has demonstrated that its fleet of missiles could likely reach parts of the United States, the country still has not shown it could design a nuclear warhead that would survive the heat and huge forces that come with re-entry of a warhead into the atmosphere.
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It isn't clear whether North Korea has the ability to put a nuclear warhead on the Musudan yet.
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The intention of the launch was to verify its capability to carry a "large scale heavy nuclear warhead".
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It is not yet believed to have the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile.
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But so far, North Korea has hardly shown itself capable of producing a deliverable nuclear warhead or vehicle.
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But they barely exist in the movie: Captain Marvel is less an Avenger and more a human warhead.
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When the two objects collide, the kill vehicle should, theoretically, obliterate the warhead without causing a nuclear detonation.
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If there is a launch, it's not clear if the missiles would carry any kind of simulated warhead.
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In response, Kim last month ordered tests of a nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles capable of carrying warheads.
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They fired three ballistic missiles on Monday, followed by the test explosion of a nuclear warhead on Friday.
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"We can't deny the possibility that North Korea is miniaturizing a device to build a warhead," Inada said.
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He continues to test ballistic missiles and has been open about his desire to acquire a nuclear warhead.
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Iron Fist Light fires a small warhead to intercept the threat at a safe distance from the vehicle.
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Critics, including arms control advocates and congressional Democrats, argue the new low-yield warhead is dangerous and unnecessary.
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He made his comments after US intelligence analysts assessed that North Korea had produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead.
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A warhead needs a reentry vehicle to carry it through the upper atmosphere, and without it, won't detonate.
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" The lawmakers want the GAO to examine the warhead need, as well alternative options, "as soon as possible.
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U.S. officials have said the same type of rocket used for Sunday's launch could deliver a nuclear warhead.
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"I wonder if he even knows that a single nuclear warhead can kill millions of people," she added.
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Your alter ego's name may be the movie's title, but this chick can become a friggin' negasonic warhead.
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The Iranian nuclear device would have fit in a missile warhead, making it about three feet in diameter.
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Avangard, which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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North Korea can kill millions of people with tactical missiles or an ICBM topped with a nuclear warhead.
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The failure of the JCPOA to address Iran's means to deliver a nuclear warhead was a major flaw.
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Each of its main type of warhead produces a 475-kiloton blast, almost 32 times that of Hiroshima.
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It also has been developing a ballistic missile that can deliver a warhead to the mainland United States.
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In September 2016, he tested a nuclear warhead that he claimed could fit on a long-range missile.
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For instance, the fiery heating, while as intense as that for an ICBM warhead, was of shorter duration.
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An ICBM warhead must endure far greater heat than a shorter-range ballistic missile like the Pukguksong-2.
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This variant has finlets under the warhead that aid in steering in the terminal phase prior to impact.
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Among the other investments planned is the so-called "low-yield" nuclear warhead that could be launched underwater.
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The warhead further contains a 1.5-ounce ring of zirconium, an incendiary metal that burns furiously when ignited.
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Even more worrying, Lewis fears Pyongyang might now be capable of producing up to 20 warhead-size bombs.
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It's unclear whether the missile could actually reach the US with a nuclear warhead that would successfully detonate.
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The Harpoon and LRASM both have electronics to guide the warhead to its target from over the horizon.
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Phil Coyle, a former head of testing and evaluation at the Pentagon who has also reviewed the publicly available test data, said that instead of using decoys meant to look and act identical to the dummy nuclear warhead, the decoys looked like "specks of sand" compared to the "bright" dummy warhead.
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The issue came to the fore again this week when US intelligence analysts assessed that North Korea had produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead, according to multiple sources, which would bring the country a significant step closer to being able to fire a nuclear-tipped warhead at the US or its allies.
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The missile is marked as a "live" (not inert) as shown by the presence of a yellow band that is used to highlight the presence of an explosive warhead and a red band meaning the presence of rocket fuel; however, during the inspection, it was found that the warhead was missing.
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Photo: APIn the last few months, North Korea's ability to launch a warhead beyond its backyard has improved exponentially.
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The official said the US believes it has the capability to mate a nuclear warhead, missile and delivery system.
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The threat that one of the 10% getting through might be carrying a nuclear warhead would not be eliminated.
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In the comic books, however, Negasonic Teenage Warhead is one of Emma Frost's students and she has telepathic powers.
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"The shorter-range missile that can reach South Korea and Japan can accommodate larger nuclear warhead payloads," he said.
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Powell was working on a Titan II missile fitted with a thermonuclear warhead, tucked away underground in Damascus, Arkansas.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded that Iran secretly researched a nuclear warhead until 2009, which Tehran denies.
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The warhead is a modification of the existing W76, which is used to arm submarine-launched Trident II missiles.
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Second, they will have to design and build a re-entry vehicle to carry the warhead to its target.
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In addition to a version with a high-explosive warhead, the Hellfire is also produced as a practice weapon.
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Last October, Iran launched a ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead in violation of the U.N. ban.
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The first interceptor hit and destroyed the re-entry vehicle, which in an actual attack would contain a warhead.
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U.S. officials have said the same type of rocket used to launch today's satellite could deliver a nuclear warhead.
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"We were basically taking the nuclear warhead off a missile and putting a space capsule on it," Roberts explains.
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But it has pushed ahead with work to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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North Korea claims it now has a nuclear warhead that's able to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The administration is also developing a hypersonic warhead that would zoom ahead of Beijing's rush to perfect its own.
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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed into law last month authorizes the development of a low-yield warhead.
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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed into law last month authorizes the development of a low-yield warhead.
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For example, it's unclear whether North Korea has successfully tested the miniaturized warhead and what yield the weapon has.
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The bill also supports the administration's request for $85033 million to develop a so-called low yield nuclear warhead.
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This will create a logistics nightmare for nuclear warhead transportation that will reverberate across the Office of Secure Transportation.
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The new missile is launched on mobile trucks and could carry a nuclear warhead with up to 500 kilograms.
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The hypersonic weapon is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The Pentagon said this week it had not seen North Korea demonstrate a capability to miniaturise a nuclear warhead.
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It can carry a nuclear warhead and allegedly hit any spot on the globe within 22019 minutes of launch.
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The U.S. says the Emad missile, which Iran tested in October, would be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
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India successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday capable of delivering a warhead to the northern regions of China.
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They're messaging us that they have this capability and those missiles can have a nuclear-tipped or conventional warhead.
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Cherry Murray served until January as a top official at the Energy Department, which runs the U.S. warhead inventory.
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In addition to Cable, the trailer also includes a couple of quick cuts featuring Domino and Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
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China also somehow acquired the design of the W-88, a thermonuclear warhead that sits atop Trident submarine missiles.
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"Clearly they're trying to build long range ballistic missiles with the ability to carry a nuclear warhead," he said.
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As with all ballistic missiles, gravity takes over after the midcourse phase, and the warhead falls toward its target.
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Reif also expressed skepticism about how much can be drawn from existing technologies if developing a new warhead design.
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However, the CIA also has in its inventory a special-purpose Hellfire missile, modified to carry an inert warhead.
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Its main feature was a shaped-charge warhead capable of punching through at least five inches of armor plate.
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North Korea has successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead to mount on a ballistic missile, according to a new report.
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The deal also makes it far less likely that a terrorist or rogue nation can obtain a nuclear warhead.
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The structure housed a nuclear warhead from 1961 to 1965 and was built to withstand a direct nuclear blast.
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Experts believe Pyongyang will be able to fit a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a missile sooner than initially predicted.
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Then came North Korea's fourth nuclear test in January, its long-range missile launch in February, the unveiling of a miniaturized nuclear warhead and announcement of successful atmospheric reentry tests of a rocket warhead in March, and then tests of the mobile ground-launched Musudan missile along with another SLBM test in April.
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And the US believes it also may be able to put a miniaturized warhead on a missile sometime in 2018 -- giving it the theoretical capability to launch a missile with a warhead atop that could attack the US. But what has happened since the last known missile test in September is curious.
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But many experts think North Korea is far off from being able to put a nuclear warhead on its missiles.
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The U.S. Defense Department said this week it had seen no evidence North Korea had succeeded in miniaturizing a warhead.
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The interception happens in the vacuum of space where a heavy warhead travels the same speed as a lighter decoy.
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"It's trying to cat and mouse where the actual warhead is, and that's actually a really difficult problem," says Grego.
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On September 4, North Korea reportedly tested a hydrogen bomb and claimed that it could put it on a warhead.
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One of the missiles detonated its large 0073-pound proximity-fused warhead around 50 meters behind the 747's tail.
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Most of the headlines focused on a cruise missile that sports a nuclear engine as well as a nuclear warhead.
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Some still doubt North Korea can make a warhead small enough, or miniaturize it enough, to mount atop a missile.
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Jacksonville wasn't incinerated in a fireball because, unlike most of its kin, the Regulus was stripped of its nuclear warhead.
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The lead up: The Trump administration called for the low-yield warhead as part of its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review.
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Another advancement likely to happen relatively soon is the development of the thermonuclear warhead -- a powerful type of nuclear weapon.
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The U.S. worries that North Korea will be able to eventually put a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile.
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Kim also claimed in March that his country has miniaturised a nuclear warhead to be mounted on a ballistic missile.
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Experts, however, are doubtful that North Korea possesses a warhead capable of surviving the stresses of re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
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On March 1, 1954, the Pentagon conducted Castle Bravo and detonated a 15 megaton thermonuclear warhead over the Bikini Atoll.
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American intelligence agencies believe it's close to perfecting an ICBM with a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable of striking our mainland.
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Kim also claimed this week to be able to miniaturize a nuclear warhead to fit on a ballistic missile. Adm.
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What makes the Tomahawk exceptionally lethal is its capability to carry a 1,000-pound conventional warhead and be reprogrammed midflight.
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That makes sense: The rationale for the warhead is dubious, and the weapon likely would never be selected for use.
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A missile capable of reaching the United States topped with a nuclear warhead is considered to be Pyongyang's ultimate goal.
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The prime danger from the U.S. viewpoint is the prospect of North Korea pairing a nuclear warhead with an ICBM.
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In September, North Korea said it tested a miniaturized nuclear warhead that was reportedly the country's largest test to date.
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The Qiam-1 has a range of almost 500 miles and can carry a 1,400-pound warhead, according to GlobalSecurity.
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The exceptions include the W80 missile warhead and B61 bomb, both of which can be "dialed down" for lower yields.
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This missile, the kind that could theoretically be tipped with a nuclear warhead, could travel far enough to hit Alaska.
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North Korea has vowed to build a ballistic missile capable of striking the continental United States with a nuclear warhead.
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The documents detailed the challenges of integrating a nuclear weapon into a warhead for the Shahab-3, an Iranian missile.
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All the big powers — Russia, China, and the United States — are racing to develop this kind of superfast maneuverable warhead.
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This sort of kit is designed to attach to a 2000-pound MK225 warhead, a bomb manufactured in Garland, Tex.
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In 2016, Pyongyang released a photograph of its leader, Kim Jong-un, posing with the country's first miniaturized nuclear warhead.
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The test was the first of a new "kill vehicle" that uses thrusters to aim directly at an incoming warhead.
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The report quotes another unnamed Chinese military expert as saying the missile's warhead was electronically linked to a targeting system.
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Kim also claimed in March that his country has miniaturized a nuclear warhead to be mounted on a ballistic missile.
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The test involved Pukguksong-2, a new intermediate-range ballistic missile that the North said can carry a nuclear warhead.
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Following that vote, reports indicated that the country has developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable of fitting on a missile.
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Kim said in March his country would soon test a nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
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Destruction of a missile early in its flight should be a good thing, but destruction of a missile carrying a nuclear warhead at a low altitude greatly increases the chance that the population and infrastructure of the defender or a friendly neighbor will be damaged by missile debris or radioactive material from the warhead.
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The launch marked another step forward in the country's quest for a long-range missile that could carry a nuclear warhead.
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Moreover, North Korea has not yet mastered the technology to protect a nuclear warhead as a missile re-enters the atmosphere.
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The next step for Pyongyang could be to miniaturize its nuclear bomb technology into a warhead that fits on the missile.
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Russia, also bound by the treaty limits, is also carrying out a modernization program but is not expanding its warhead stockpile.
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"We don't have a low-yield warhead on a long-range ballistic missile; and we have never had that," Kristensen said.
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The cutting-edge vehicle has the potential to penetrate U.S. missile defense systems and be refitted to include a nuclear warhead.
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The US Defense Department said this week it had seen no evidence that North Korea had succeeded in miniaturizing a warhead.
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NORTH KOREA Bomb-astic: The bad news - Some U.S. intelligence analysts now believe North Korea probably has a mini nuclear warhead.
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More sophisticated ICBMs are capable of deploying decoys during flight, making it difficult to discriminate which piece is the actual warhead.
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North Korea has conducted its sixth nuclear detonation and has fired missiles that could potentially carry a nuclear warhead this year.
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North Korea has been developing a long-range missile capable of striking the mainland United States mounted with a nuclear warhead.
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To do so, it would need to make a warhead compact and light enough to fit into a missile's nose cone.
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Albright said he thinks Pyongyang can miniaturize a warhead for shorter missiles, but not yet for intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs.
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The second – and more dangerous – would see the HAMMER detonating its on-board nuclear warhead to change the asteroid&aposs course.
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The primary concern surrounding North Korea's weapons program is that Pyongyang could eventually equip long-range missiles with a nuclear warhead.
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The push back: Critics, including arms control advocates and congressional Democrats, argue the new low-yield warhead is dangerous and unnecessary.
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However, early analysis of Friday's test cannot determine how heavy a payload the missile was carrying in its warhead, Wright said.
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Also, telemetry communication fed to the ground crew can provide information on whether the dummy warhead detonates at the desired altitude.
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North Korea underscored that fact Tuesday when it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to Alaska.
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The technology involved in the launch was "dual-use" and could be used to launch a satellite or deliver a warhead.
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Get smart: The reason miniaturization is so key is because a missile's range depends on how heavy the nuclear warhead is.
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State media in Pyongyang said North Korea now had the power to now strike the American mainland with a nuclear warhead.
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The technology involved in the launch was "dual-use," and could be used to launch a satellite or deliver a warhead.
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The Tomahawk originally was designed in the 1980s to carry a nuclear warhead but was later converted to conventional weapon use.
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The North has been struggling to master the so-called warhead re-entry technology needed to build an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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It would carry an upgraded W-80 nuclear warhead and be able to penetrate the world's most advanced air-defense systems.
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The Trump administration's Nuclear Posture Review called for the development of a low-yield nuclear warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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Washington wants Pyongyang to stop its recent advances in missile and warhead technology that could endanger the entire continental United States.
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However, it remains unclear if North Korea has the technology to mount a heavy nuclear warhead on a long-range missile.
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The initial analysis shows Tuesday's launch likely involved a two-stage missile with a non-explosive dummy warhead, the official said.
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Every Republican on the subcommittee voted against the bill last week over the low-yield warhead provision and three other issues.
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The subcommittee voted out of key language opposed by Republicans that prohibits the United States from deploying the low yield warhead.
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LRSO will replace the AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile, which can be outfitted with either a nuclear or conventional warhead.
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It's another to know with certainty that it will hit a city, or that the warhead within it will actually explode.
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Sunday's missile launch also tested the North's capability to carry a "large-size heavy nuclear warhead", the state news agency said.
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The warhead utilizes both a cast titanium body and chisel style nose to allow better penetration capability while reducing ricochet probability.
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The new restrictions came in response to North Korea's nuclear warhead test in September, its fifth and potentially most powerful yet.
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The Europeans think that new sanctions should only be put on long range ballistic missiles that can carry a nuclear warhead.
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Iran conducted a precision-guided ballistic missile test capable of delivering a nuclear warhead violating a United Nations ban last October.
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Mr. Putin said Russia had successfully tested the novel warhead technology, capable of travel at 20 times the speed of sound.
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The 12-foot-long missile has a range of about 60 miles and carries a roughly 50-pound high-explosive warhead.
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But Wednesday's launch re-confirmed "the safety of a warhead in the atmospheric re-entry environment," state media said, without elaborating.
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Each full-power W76-1 warhead—the centerpiece of America's nuclear arsenal—likely releases some 85033,000 tons of TNT explosive equivalent.
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And "short range" is relative: the weapon seems to have the capacity to slam a nuclear warhead into Seoul or Tokyo.
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A United Nations resolution calls for Iran not to undertake activity related to ballistic missiles designed to have a nuclear warhead.
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Iran has said the missiles were not designed to carry a nuclear warhead, and so the tests didn't violate the resolution.
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The Hwasong-12 is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that the North says is designed to carry a large nuclear warhead.
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It too is controversial due to unknowns regarding its pending cost, schedule, and significant integration challenges to accommodate the new warhead.
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The US believes the North Koreans have been working to improve their rocket engines, mobile missile launchers, and nuclear warhead production.
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"How progressed do you want North Korea to get in the capacity to put a nuclear warhead into Darwin?" he asked.
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"Claiming that the warhead is based on existing designs doesn't provide much comfort given the significant changes being contemplated," Reif said.
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The thermal blast of a five-megaton warhead (the high end of modern intercontinental ballistic missiles) will be around 15 miles.
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These weapons were not covered as part of the JCPOA, but in theory could be used to deliver a nuclear warhead.
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On the offensive side, DNA established the nuclear warhead capabilities and tactics for defeating every type of military and industrial target.
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Around the corner from where Doaa was hit, another chemical warhead landed inside a home in September, burrowing into the lawn.
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Soon, North Korea will be able to marry a nuclear warhead on a rocket capable of hitting all the United States.
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August 8, 2017 North Korea successfully develops and mounts a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile, The Washington Post reports.
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The long-range torpedo with a monster warhead is apparently meant to shower coastal regions with deadly radioactivity, leaving cities uninhabitable.
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"If they really want to sort of drive the point home that they can put the United States at risk of a nuclear weapon, they would actually put a dummy warhead at the end of it and show that that warhead can get through the atmosphere and hit something like a city," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday.
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The Arrow 3's main goal is to intercept long-range missiles from Iran, possibly in the future involving a nuclear warhead.
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Iran is the subject of a United Nations Security Council resolution prohibiting tests of ballistic missiles designed to deliver a nuclear warhead.
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It's a worrying development for Seoul, though many analysts say the country's missiles aren't yet developed enough to deliver a nuclear warhead.
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A Military Analysis Network report from the Federation of American Scientists further specifies that the torpedo uses a conventional, high-explosive warhead.
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Per Soviet protocols, all three of the Russian submarine's commanding officers needed to agree unanimously on the decision to launch the warhead.
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The United States has said the North's claim that it had miniaturized a warhead had to be taken as a credible threat.
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The Trident, currently launched from ballistic missile submarines, carry a W-76 thermonuclear warhead carried inside a Mk-4 re-entry vehicle.
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Using infrared sensors to find the incoming warhead, the kill vehicle moves into the warhead's path by firing its own little thrusters.
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It packs a 22-pound warhead and has the ability to carry a variety of payloads for lethal strikes or electronic attack.
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So most likely this missile will be armed with more than one warhead, but we don't know how many it can accommodate.
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Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, and Leslie Uggams all return, but best of all, Brianna Hildebrand will be back as Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
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After its July 4 test, North Korea said it had mastered the technology needed to deploy a nuclear warhead via the missile.
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So the chances of it producing a functional nuclear warhead and putting it on a missile are getting better - and scarier. 2.
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Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying declined to say if China had received advanced notice of North Korea's nuclear warhead test Friday.
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An ICBM, he points out, only makes sense if it carries a nuclear warhead, so testing one should prompt broad economic sanctions.
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State-run KCNA news agency said leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of the weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
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Trump's comments came after reports that intelligence agencies believe the North can put a small nuclear warhead atop a long-range missile.
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That agreement allows for what is known as the "bomber discount", which counts an aircraft carrying several bombs as a single warhead.
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Less clear is whether North Korea has made the strides it claims in miniaturising a nuclear warhead for the missile to carry.
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North Korea said after its September nuclear test that it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
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It packs a 155kg warhead and, after popping out of the water, flies at near the speed of sound for about 290km.
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The 16th Edition of Combat Fleets of the World notes that an export version has about a 450-pound high-explosive warhead.
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What also makes the Tomahawk exceptionally lethal is its capability to carry a 1,000-pound conventional warhead which can be reprogrammed midflight.
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The 2628M28503 differs from the older 22019M728 missile, Matveyevsky said, by having a more powerful warhead and a more precise guidance system.
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The Trump administration's 2018 Nuclear Posture Review called for a low-yield warhead on some Trident D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).
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So North Korea seems to have mastered the technical know-how to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead on U.S. soil.
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But the United States says the Emad is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and the test therefore violated a U.N. resolution.
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The Trump administration proposed the submarine-launched low-yield warhead, known as the W76-2, as part of its Nuclear Posture Review.
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The isolated country has been developing a long-range missile capable of striking the mainland United States mounted with a nuclear warhead.
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However, in the mid-credits scene, the device is repaired by Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) and her girlfriend Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna).
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The other, a three-stage interceptor missile with a so-called "kill vehicle"—in essence, a non-explosive warhead—at its tip.
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In a final act of vengeance, Kim detonates the super-EMP warhead in his KMS-4 satellite, blacking out the United States.
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North Korea successfully tested a missile on Tuesday that can carry a nuclear warhead and travel at least 210,250 miles in distance.
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China, meanwhile, is testing a new warhead called a "hypersonic glide vehicle" that can fly fast enough to evade most missile defenses.
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So the distance traveled, while impressive, does not necessarily translate into a working intercontinental ballistic missile that could deliver a thermonuclear warhead.
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The North has also pledged to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that could deliver a nuclear warhead to the continental United States.
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The North is still working on a warhead that could survive the intense heat of re-entry as it plunges from space.
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It enabled the Pentagon to argue that it is making strides in protecting the United States from a North Korean nuclear warhead.
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On May 14, North Korea successfully launched what it called a new ballistic missile that can carry a large, heavy nuclear warhead.
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Still, he said, the nation will probably be able to develop a workable missile with a reliable warhead by early next year.
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Warhead design and the like are far more likely at military sites like Parchin where the IAEA has never had adequate access.
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John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said of the Pentagon's request for a low-yield warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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The U.S. is planning to develop two new nuclear weapons, including a "low yield" warhead, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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That low-yield warhead would be used with the Trident missile, a rocket deployed on U.S. Navy submarines, according to the Journal.
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As expected, it did not sense any adversary warhead, so it struck the next "most lethal object" it could identify, as designed.
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When the projectile impacted, the detonation of the hollow-charge warhead collapsed the conical metal liner and blasted it through the target.
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In 1962, the United States launched a ballistic missile with a live warhead in what was known as the Frigate Bird test.
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Earlier this year, Kim claimed he'd finally gotten his hands on a nuclear warhead small enough to be mounted on a rocket.
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The loose threats came on the heels of North Korea successfully miniaturizing a nuclear warhead, a development experts have dreaded about for years.
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The two technologies are very similar, but it is re-entry of the warhead that has not yet been demonstrated, US officials said.
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The Rodong missile can fire a 5003 tonne (1,100 lb) warhead a distance of up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles), the official said.
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South Korea has previously said North Korea had made progress in its efforts to miniaturize a nuclear warhead but the capability was incomplete.
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North Korea callas it the Pukguksong-2, a surface to surface strategic missile which it claims can be tipped with a nuclear warhead.
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The yield of each warhead was arbitrarily assigned a value of 2400 kilotons (kt), a problem we'll get to in just a bit.
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South Korea said it did not believe that North Korea had successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead or deployed a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile.
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It also remains unclear whether the North Koreans have perfected a re-entry vehicle capable of protecting a nuclear warhead during its descent.
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GMD is designed to track, intercept and destroy an incoming nuclear warhead outside the earth's atmosphere through the force of the collision alone.
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There are also still doubts as to whether North Korea has mastered the technology needed to protect a warhead during an ICBM's descent.
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"North Korea is unlikely to have sufficiently miniaturized a nuclear device for a warhead," analysts at IHS Country Risk echoed in a note.
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A Defense Intelligence Agency assessment said this week Pyongyang had succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear warhead and could fit it onto a missile.
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His remark came on the heels of a news article that cited an intelligence assessment claiming Pyongyang had successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead.
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" Chinoy said there was "no doubt (the North Koreans) are making progress, but it remains unclear whether they have actually miniaturized the warhead.
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State and military officials know there will be little time to react if North Korea does launch a nuclear warhead aimed at Hawaii.
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The "weak" ranking fell to warhead modernization efforts in the U.S. as well as to the facilities that develop and host these components.
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" Promise: Following reports that North Korea had successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead, Trump vowed to meet further attacks with "fire and fury.
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Sunday's missile test follows the launch of the Hwasong-12 missile last week which North Korea claims can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.
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While difficult to verify, Pyongyang has probably converted its underground nuclear test rig into a warhead that would fit into a missile nosecone.
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This type of rocket, analysts say, could also be used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and could potentially carry a nuclear warhead.
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On Tuesday, North Korea's state media said Kim had ordered tests soon of a nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles capable of carrying warheads.
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The country claimed its fifth and most powerful nuclear test in September, a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on a ballistic rocket.
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What had been built to deliver a nuclear warhead on an ICBM were eventually dismantled as the USSR collapsed and treaties were signed.
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It should pare back on President Obama's $1 trillion plan to replace nearly every missile, submarine, aircraft and warhead in the nuclear arsenal.
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The official said the watercraft is carried a warhead from a Styx anti-ship missile so it can be used to attack ships.
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That said, let's be clear: "warhead and delivery systems" means nukes, and that is what this $600 million supercomputer will be dedicated to.
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"We don't know what payload it carries so it's not clear it can carry a nuclear warhead to that range," Wright told CNBC.
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North Korea is quietly, but aggressively, working to advance its intercontinental ballistic missile program to reach the United States with a nuclear warhead.
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In August 2017, the Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that North Korea had produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its ICBMs.
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North Korea's recent missile tests, and reports of its progress in nuclear warhead design have produced a volatile new urgency in U.S. policy.
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Some, like Guardians of the Galaxy's Nebula, Black Panther's Nakia and Okoye, or Deadpool's Negasonic Teenage Warhead, go super short or totally bald.
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It fired two "interceptors" from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California against a mock warhead launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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Many Western experts still doubt that North Korea has mastered all the technologies needed to deliver a small nuclear warhead on such missiles.
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But really, how do you put a price on a warhead that chief executives can use to project power at a moment's notice?
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Second, the North needs a re-entry vehicle housing the warhead that can survive the heat and stresses of an intercontinental ballistic launch.
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And they pointed out other shortcomings in the North's program, including its inability to deliver a nuclear warhead, let alone over long distances.
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But on May 14, North Korea successfully launched a new intermediate-range ballistic missile that it said could carry a heavy nuclear warhead.
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The warhead, which is buried beneath Tulsa, Oklahoma, emits a kind of radiation that's safe for the body but lethal to the brain.
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The incoming mock warhead, Mr. Elleman said, should have shone brightly and continuously as it fell — like a shooting star streaking to Earth.
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Washington believes Tehran's space program is merely a cover for its attempts to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile to launch a nuclear warhead.
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In FY20 budget documents, the NNSA referred to a "Next Navy Warhead," but estimated that the weapon would not need funding until 2023.
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The finless Qiam implies an advanced missile stabilization system, and has been pictured with a triconic warhead that separates from the missile body.
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This warhead with less explosive force is in response to Russia, which developed underwater drones that are capable of carrying low-yield warheads.
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Its gripping, foot-on-the-gas plot touches on the fall of the Berlin Wall, stolen Stasi files, and a missing thermonuclear warhead.
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An unlimited warhead weight allowance would enable the South to strike North Korea with greater force in the event of a military conflict.
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Experts say fine tuning the nuclear warhead miniaturization on the missiles is one reason the North Koreans want to continue testing nuclear weapons.
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In particular, spigot mortars offer a way to provide a small tele-operated platform with a very substantial warhead for close-range use.
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If North Korea does indeed have around 29.9, that puts the cost of each warhead at between around $2503 million and $2250 million.
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In 2014-2016, successful tests of the EKV accomplished warhead intercepts in outer space, the equivalent of hitting a bullet with a bullet.
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Even a single warhead successfully delivered against allies overseas or against the United States could black out an entire nation and kill millions.
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But the bottom line is that during eight years of Clinton's presidency, North Korea didn't add a single nuclear warhead to its stockpile.
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The US and South Korea believe Pyongyang may be able to put a miniaturized warhead on a missile sometime in 2018 -- giving it the theoretical capability to launch a missile with a warhead atop it that could reach the US. It is currently testing a more advanced version of its existing ICBM, a US official told CNN earlier this month.
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But if fans remember the first film, they'll recall that Deadpool's teammates (Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead) weren't exactly enthusiastic about helping him out.
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Called the Pukguksong-2, the weapon was powered by solid fuel and capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, according to North Korean state media.
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South Korea's defence ministry said it did not believe North Korea had successfully miniaturised a nuclear warhead or deployed a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile.
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It's possible that the warhead could be a relatively lower-yield fission device, a boosted-fission device, or a full-on staged nuclear weapon.
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The weapon can operate at depths greater than 27,483 feet and fires a 248-pound high-explosive warhead, available Navy and Lockheed data states.
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To stop it, a ground-based interceptor missile fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base collided with the incoming warhead and smashed it to smithereens.
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In their report on the incident released last October, Dutch investigators found that the plane crashed after a missile warhead exploded outside the cockpit.
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It appears to be a mobile intermediate-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead as far as the critical U.S. base at Guam.
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North Korea is believed to be refining the technology to mount a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental missile which could potentially reach US targets.
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Missiles in the Kalibr family differ in size, launch platform, range and speed but can all pack either a conventional warhead or nuclear payload.
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As Pyongyang moves forward with warhead and missile testing, however, many experts believe the likelihood of Washington finally taking such steps is gradually increasing.
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Experts believe that if modified to carry a 2,200lb (1,000kg) warhead instead of a satellite, the Unha-3 could reach Alaska and possibly Hawaii.
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Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles.
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North Korea has previously claimed it has successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead that could go on the front end of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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US commanders are already operating under the assumption that Kim has the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead to place it on a missile.
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A conventional ballistic missile, like the kind the White House confirmed Iran tested on Sunday, could easily be repurposed to fit a nuclear warhead.
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"There is a possibility that North Korea is already capable of delivering a warhead containing sarin," Abe told a parliamentary committee on national security.
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When Deadpool reunites with the side-eye-slinging Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), he's introduced to her chipper, pink-haired girlfriend Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna).
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On Tuesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered tests of a nuclear warhead in the "nearest future," state-run news agency KCNA said.
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"He instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips by further expanding engine production process," the statement said.
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North Korea said it had conducted a test of a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile that can carry a large and heavy nuclear warhead.
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After its fifth nuclear test in late 2016, North Korea claimed it successfully tested a nuclear warhead that could be placed on a missile.
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The high altitude also gave North Korea's engineers an opportunity to test the heat-resistance capability of their warhead, the country's media reports said.
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Meanwhile, the Washington Post obtained a photo of Iranian engineers working on what is described as a non-working prototype of nuclear warhead assembly.
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The tests took place days after the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered more tests of ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
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Not only that, but a warhead containing anthrax would destroy the bacteria on impact because of the amount of heat released in the explosion.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration is expected to finish production of the warhead this year, but the Pentagon still needs money to deploy them.
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" He added, however, that "actually marrying the warhead to the missile is probably the biggest challenge, which they appear not to have progressed on.
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The country's Dassault Rafale fighter jet can deploy a nuclear weapon with a warhead 20 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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If a warhead of that size were to drop over Washington, DC, it would result in some 280,000 casualties, according to Nuclear Secrecy's calculations.
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North Korea is aggressively pursuing the capability to deliver a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the continental United States.
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It's also still open to debate whether it could successfully arm a long-range missile (ICBM) with a warhead and strike the U.S. mainland.
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The new penalties — adopted unanimously by the Council, including China — came as North Korea advances toward its goal of building a functional nuclear warhead.
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It has also claimed that it has been able to attach a nuclear warhead to its missiles, although this has not been independently verified.
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The NDAA would also block the deployment of a new submarine-launched low-yield nuclear warhead, another provision the White House "strongly objects" to.
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At Russia's insistence, each bomber is counted as a single warhead, no matter how many nuclear bombs it carries or has ready for use.
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A warhead is about the size of a desk, and you're trying to hit a desk from distances like 7,000 or 8,000 kilometers away.
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In Monday's test, the Pentagon said the incoming warhead was destroyed by the first interceptor, and that the second went after the largest remnant.
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Pakistan, for its part, announced last year that it had successfully test-fired a submarine-launched cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
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Second, Bolton in 2002 helped kill the Agreed Framework that had kept North Korea from building a single nuclear warhead during the Clinton years.
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To date, evidence from the North's test launches suggests it is still in the beginning stages of learning how to build a survivable warhead.
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Ships and submarines now carry Tomahawks armed with conventional warheads; experts say that eventually a nuclear warhead could be designed to fit the Tomahawk.
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Officials say they believe the North already possesses medium-range missiles capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to much of South Korea and Japan.
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"We can't deny the possibility that North Korea is miniaturizing a device to build a warhead," Inada said at a press briefing in Tokyo.
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In the old system, a contestant like Gabby Barrett, a nuclear-warhead singer aimed directly at country radio, might have had the leg up.
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According to a senior defense official, the reason for the new designation comes from the reality that the warhead is largely a new design.
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It is mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile, allowing the warhead to be initially carried toward a target on a traditional piece of technology.
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Both were arrested that year after entering a General Electric nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and damaging nuclear warhead nose cones.
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Pyongyang conducted its largest nuclear test last year and said it had developed a missile capable of carrying a warhead to the United States.
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Russia successfully tested the weapon, which could carry a nuclear warhead, twice in 2016, according to sources who had spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Pyongyang has successfully developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead small enough to be fitted to one of its missiles, according to intelligence from multiple countries.
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According to sources with direct knowledge of American intelligence reports, Russia successfully tested the weapon, which could carry a nuclear warhead, twice in 2016.
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In 2016, North Korean released footage of its KN-2023 and KN-14 ICBMs as well as tests of its warhead re-entry technology.
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If delay-fuzed ammunition was fired against buildings, the initial impact of the motor assembly assisted the warhead in penetrating walls to burst beyond.
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Strong doubt also remains over the North's claim that it can manufacture a nuclear warhead small enough to be fitted onto such a missile.
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While this was initially considered impossible, the U.S. eventually developed doomsday weapons, such as the Nike ZEUS missile boasting a 28500-kiloton nuclear warhead.
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It remains unclear whether North Korea has developed the technology that would allow it to place a nuclear warhead on top of an ICBM.
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In the test this month, a missile carried a warhead 1,700 miles into space, and returned it at high speed in a sharp parabola.
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"We need to start behaving as if they already have a compact warhead," said Melissa Hanham, a researcher James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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If an American submarine ever fires a Trident missile with a low-yield warhead, critics predict that could provoke a nuclear retaliation before impact.
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Perhaps Kim is confident that he has gained all the nuclear knowledge he needs, believing he has assembled a workable rocket and nuclear warhead.
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It was launched from Bohai Bay in the Yellow Sea late last month, with the warhead landing in the northwest Gobi Desert in Xinjiang.
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A "kill vehicle" pops off the top of the defending missile above the Earth's atmosphere and seeks out and destroys the attacking missile's warhead.
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And according to a North Korean statement (always to be taken with a grain of salt), the Hwasong-12 can carry a nuclear warhead.
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North Korea's scientific community has yet to marry a warhead to a missile, but that is exactly why we see an increase in missile testing.
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"Any missile at these bases can take a nuclear warhead," he continued, which is scary since Pyongyang has an estimated 40 to 60 nuclear warheads.
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As CNN reported in March, some U.S. intelligence analysts now believe that North Korea "probably" possesses a miniaturized nuclear warhead, several U.S. officials told CNN.
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Played By: Brianna Hildebrand The Negasonic Teenage Warhead we see in the Deadpool movie is significantly different than the one we meet in the comics.
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Here's what happened: On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that North Korea had successfully created a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable of fitting inside a missile.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korea believes its neighbor to the north may be able to mount a nuclear warhead onto a medium-range missile.
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They may already have learned to shrink a nuclear weapon enough to fit it on a missile, though a warhead may not survive re-entry.
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The newer Khorramshahr — with a reported range of 1,1 miles — features a biconic warhead with finlets, implying that it can maneuver before reaching its target.
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What's more, there's no indication that North Korea has developed the capacity to miniaturize a nuclear warhead such that it can fit onto a missile.
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We get some glimpses of the X-Men from the first Deadpool —Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead — but there are a few new players here.
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Putin claimed that the aircraft-carried Kinzhal's latest iteration can deliver either a nuclear or conventional warhead at a distance of more than 1,313 miles.
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Decoys and countermeasures are meant to dupe the kill vehicle into attacking the wrong object, allowing the real warhead to pass unscathed toward its objective.
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North Korea North Korea's conducted another underground nuke test, and this one may be its most disturbing: it says it successfully tested a nuclear warhead.
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But: We don't have "boost phase" defense, which stops a warhead before it separates from a missile, which would be "the preferred situation," Bennett said.
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U.S. officials who endorse the notion that Kim probably has a nuclear warhead still note that they don't know if the device would actually work.
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A rocket that can place a large satellite into orbit can just as easily propel a nuclear warhead to the other side of the world.
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Last week brought news that, according to an analysis by intelligence officials, Pyongyang has successfully produced a nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles.
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The warhead slams into the side of a wall, tearing a fiery hole in the brickwork, and shredding the alien standing on the other side.
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The single biggest expenditure is 99 billion yen ($295 million) to upgrade Japan's warhead-killing Patriot batteries, a last line of defense against missile strikes.
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We don't know the payload used in the test, and if it was lightweight, the actual range with a nuclear warhead would be significantly shorter.
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But it's clear that unless something changes that they're on their way to both a long range missile and a warhead to put on it.
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That is unlikely to persuade Kim to stop testing, and he will almost certainly develop the capability to strike the US with a nuclear warhead.
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead puts Wade in his place with a well-timed glare or long, uncomfortable silence when he gets too cocky or starts showboating.
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The bomb part of the program was, at best, paused while Iran continued work on the nuclear explosive and the missile to carry a warhead.
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What the Trump administration wants: The administration's Nuclear Posture Review called for the development of a low-yield nuclear warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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Experts also do not see North Korea as being capable anytime soon of building a much more destructive hydrogen warhead, capable of destroying large cities.
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The use of the phrase "nuclear warhead" rather than "nuclear device" is noteworthy, suggesting a specific, miniaturized design that can be mounted on a missile.
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At least two recent ballistic missile tests demonstrated a dummy warhead successfully re-entering the atmosphere at least in a limited fashion, by not shattering.
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In the next few years, North Korea will likely succeed in developing a ballistic missile that can strike the United States with a nuclear warhead.
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The latest U.S. intelligence assessment is that the North probably does not yet have that capability - putting a small-enough nuclear warhead atop an ICBM.
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The technology is needed for a warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile to survive heat and turbulence while plunging through the atmosphere toward its target.
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Pyongyang claims that it has succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear warhead that can be mounted on a missile, but this have never been independently verified.
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North Korea has conducted several long-range missile and high-power warhead tests this year, coupled with threats to the United States and its allies.
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North Korea appears determined to press ahead until it can mount a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the United States.
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The weapons that once occupied this space were called Atlas missiles, the first missiles capable of crossing continents to deliver an Armageddon-level nuclear warhead.
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After separation, the weapon is no longer able to accelerate, but it is able to maneuver to evade defenses and deliver a warhead to target.
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The United States by its own decision currently has only a single warhead in each of its ICBMS, but these too have room for more.
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Again, we don't even know in what condition the warhead returned from space, and so it's not clear how significant or urgent the threat is.
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In May, North Korea first tested the KN-33 missile, capable of flying up to about 23 miles while carrying a nuclear warhead on top.
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But he said it had not proved that North Korea has accomplished re-entry technology, or an ability to guide the warhead to its target.
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Pyongyang said the ballistic missile could carry a nuclear warhead, and warned the U.S. that its military bases in the Pacific were within its range.
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Bits It is no secret that North Korea's military ambitions include building an intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to the United States.
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The primary American objective in the 2015 agreement was to keep Iran at least a year away from getting enough fuel to fashion a warhead.
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The official did point out that the regime is still struggling with the technical challenge of ensuring a warhead can re-enter the earth's atmosphere.
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Earlier this month, the Pentagon confirmed it deployed its own low-yield nuclear warhead meant to act as a deterrent to Russia's low-yield bombs.
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A warhead launched by an ICBM needs a protective reentry vehicle to help it survive the fiery descent through the atmosphere to hit its target.
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"But it's a reminder that they are continuing to pursue nuclear warhead development, and that itself is an escalation of risks for us," he added.
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As a new form of missile defense, cyberwarfare seems to offer the possibility of preventing nuclear strikes without the firing of a single nuclear warhead.
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Third, our current Minuteman — and new GBSD missiles — both will deploy one warhead, although as a hedge both will be capable of a higher number.
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Avangard accuracy would enable Russian ICBMs to destroy U.S. hard targets, like missile silos, with a single very low-yield or even non-nuclear warhead.
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But it has yet to demonstrate that its nuclear warhead could survive the re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere and hit such long-range targets.
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Two recent ballistic missiles flew over Japan as Pyongyang advanced toward its goal of creating nuclear warhead-tipped missiles that can hit the United States.
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More chillingly, a swarm of Perdixes—each fitted with a tiny warhead—could strike potentially hundreds of targets at a time in a small area.
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According to NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein, an airburst from a 28503kt warhead (kt—thousands of tons of TNT) would result in about 22019 thousand dead with 160 thousand injuries in central San Francisco, 70 thousand dead and 150 thousand injuries in Los Angeles and 81 thousand dead with 297 thousand injuries in Tokyo; roughly 80 to 85033 percent more resulting from a 20kt warhead.
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But North Korea has never flight-tested a long-range ballistic missile, which requires technology that enables a warhead to survive re-entry into the atmosphere.
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On Monday morning, Pyongyang said that the test of a new missile type at the weekend was successful and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
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Many experts have questioned whether the North has the know-how to mount a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a missile and complete a functioning weapons system.
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Despite threats to strike the mainland United States, the North is seen as several years away from building an ICBM that can carry a nuclear warhead.
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The United States' only test of an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead was fired from submarine far out in the Pacific Ocean in 1962.
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Many experts think North Korea is far off from being able to put a nuclear warhead on its missiles, which would make it a global threat.
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Earlier in the day, The Washington Post reported that North Korea had been successful in creating a miniaturized nuclear warhead able to fit inside its missile.
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Related: Kim Jong-un Says North Korea Will Test Its Nuclear Warhead Soon In 2006, North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon and long-range missile.
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That matters, he says, because single-stage devices have a limited yield (even boosted-fission ones), whereas the power of a two-stage warhead is immense.
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Many experts have questioned whether the North has the know-how to mount a miniaturised nuclear warhead on a missile and complete a functioning weapons system.
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The MDA has taken 60% as its benchmark and calculated that if four interceptors were launched at one warhead, the kill probability would rise to 97%.
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It also said the test verified the atmospheric re-entry of the warhead, which experts say may be able to reach the U.S. state of Alaska.
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He already has a missile with the range to strike the United States and will probably soon be able to equip it with a thermonuclear warhead.
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North Korean ballistic missiles can certainly reach these guys, potentially and if they can carry a nuclear warhead, that would of course be a grave concern.
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North Korea claimed this year that one of its ballistic missiles could carry a nuclear warhead — although it is not believed to currently have that capability.
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The photographs it released show three parts related to a warhead: a heat shield, a core sphere containing the fissile material, and a fuel-filled cylinder.
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The laser probably wouldn't be reliable to kill the missile warhead on its re-entry since at that phase it is designed to withstand intense heat.
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Experts believe that if modified to carry a 2,200-pound (1,000-kg) warhead instead of a satellite, the Unha-3 could reach Alaska and possibly Hawaii.
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The South was able to do technical analysis and come up with range estimates and also reportedly concluded the missile could carry a 1,200-pound warhead.
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Such reentry mastery would be required for a nuclear warhead to withstand extreme temperatures and other stresses of atmospheric reentry of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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" KCNA said the test was "aimed at verifying the tactical and technological specifications of the newly-development rocket capable of carrying a large-size nuclear warhead.
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The photos, published by KCNA, accompanied a report that said Kim had instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips.
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An export version is available but, if you prefer, Russia's submarine-launched Kalibr-PL missile offers a bigger warhead and a terminal sprint at Mach three.
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GMD is meant to protect the country against a limited nuclear attack and is the only system that could intercept a long-range ballistic missile warhead.
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Harold Brown was the defense secretary who breathed a sigh of relief once miliary officials had managed to locate the missing warhead and render it safe.
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North Korea's ability to fire a nuclear warhead at the U.S. will soon become an accepted reality, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Generally, he said, he is eying three areas to address: new weapons such the low-yield warhead, the triad and nuclear dialogue with Russia and China.
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That created an effective moratorium of up to 15 years on the ability of Iran to enrich to 85033 percent, enough to build a nuclear warhead.
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Included in the plan is a low-yield warhead intended for use in a submarine-launched ballistic missile, as well as a sea-launched cruise missile.
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The ministry said North Korea may now conduct a nuclear test with "boosted explosive power" to show off a warhead to be mounted on a missile.
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These fins could be used to provide additional guidance to the missile warhead as it approaches a target, making the missile system more accurate and dangerous.
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A recent Defense Intelligence Agency study concluded that North Korea would be able to add a nuclear warhead to that missile in less than a year.
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The Tomahawk is carried by the dozens by US and British warships, including cruisers, destroyers and submarines, and is capable of delivering a 1,000-pound warhead.
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North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
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The sources, who spoke to CNBC on the condition of anonymity, said Russia successfully tested the weapon, which could carry a nuclear warhead, twice in 2016.
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Pyongyang said on Wednesday it had conducted a test of a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry a large and heavy nuclear warhead.
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The intelligence reports, which were compiled this spring, found that Russia successfully tested a hypersonic glide vehicle, which could carry a nuclear warhead, twice in 2016.
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Here's what has to happen between now and then: If you thought firing a nuclear warhead was complicated, just try triggering the U.S. Senate's nuclear option.
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"Depending on the trajectory, we should not assume that we can, with any reliability, intercept ICBM warhead targets," says Vipin Narang, a nuclear expert at MIT.
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That accord had prohibited all land-based surface to surface missiles, regardless of the type of warhead, with ranges from roughly 6900 miles to 2628,28503 miles.
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But it was unclear if Pyongyang had the technology to miniaturize a nuclear warhead, and it still needed to prove other things, including re-entry technology.
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By contrast, the newly deployed "low-yield" nuclear W76-2 warhead for our submarine-launched ballistic missile reportedly wields some 5,000 tons of TNT blast power.
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Later that spring, the symbol appeared on buttons and signs in an antinuclear march to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, a warhead factory in Aldermaston, England.
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U.S. military commanders said Pyongyang's actions could include the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which it has halted since 2017, alongside nuclear warhead tests.
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A typical nuclear warhead weighs about 300 kg, although North Korea is not believed to have been able to miniaturize a nuclear weapon to that size.
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As North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho stated in 2017, a rocket-borne live nuclear warhead, either atmospheric or exoatmospheric, is a certainty to come.
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North Korea has a compelling need to demonstrate it can marry a nuclear warhead with a rocket, even if the delivery system is not an ICBM.
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The American missiles used in the attack, BGM-109 Tomahawks, have a range of around 1,000 miles and carry a warhead that weighs half a ton.
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It is not clear that the North can accurately target such a missile or build a nuclear warhead that can survive re-entry into the atmosphere.
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Putin said Russia has new drones and nuclear weapons systems with unlimited range that could render NATO defenses "useless" and deliver a warhead at hypersonic speed.
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The news that North Korea has developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead that could be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile has escalated a war of words.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon is planning new nuclear weapons, including a "low yield" warhead, with a view to countering Russia and China.
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This is inadequate for confident shoot down capability for anything more than one small salvo of single warhead incoming missiles, probably less than 10 including decoys.
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That claim was greeted with skepticism by analysts, but in March 2016 Mr. Kim was photographed admiring what state media described as a home-built warhead.
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Pyongyang's submarines, although ageing Soviet models, are a key part of Kim Jong Un's strategy to mount a nuclear warhead on a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
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The country claimed that the development, which has not been independently confirmed, puts the US within "strike range" of a missile armed with a nuclear warhead.
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India fired yet another missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions over the brewing arms race with neighboring nuclear giant China.
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been focused on developing ballistic missile technology capable of reaching the continental United States while carrying a nuclear warhead.
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Experts believe that, despite the test Tuesday, North Korea is still some years away from successfully miniaturizing a nuclear warhead and mount it on an ICBM.
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The world pays attention to North Korea, but it has demonstrated little ability to meter its ambitions to achieve a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
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Pyongyang said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat the international community has been powerless to contain.
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Japan will also want to know how Trump plans to approach North Korea, which has ramped up its testing of missiles this year, including a nuclear warhead.
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The second is based on the fact that Iran continues to test technology capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
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At this point, the missile breaks up into the warhead, debris, decoys intended to confuse our sensors, and the last stage of the burned-out rocket booster.
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Gina Carano is a major bad-guy heavy and formidable foe for the metallic X-man Colossus and his sidekick, the fiery Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand).
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The second is based on the fact that Iran continues to test technology capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 151.
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If that was the case, making the device small enough to be turned into a warhead that could be carried on an ICBM would be technically difficult.
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The United States and its allies believe the true purpose of such launches is to eventually develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead.
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If converted into a warhead small enough to fit on its Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, it could kill nearly everyone across a 15-square-kilometre area.
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The test showed the solid-fuel missile's control and guidance system as well as the atmospheric re-entry of the warhead all met operational requirements, KCNA said.
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Western intelligence analysts familiar with satellite imagery of the area say a covered railway has been completed that runs into a hillside bunker – the suspected warhead arsenal.
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In Deadpool 2's closing scene, we see Wade joined by Domino, Cable, Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her girlfriend Yukio, Dopinder the taxi driver, Colossus, and Firefist.
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Global leaders condemned the attack, and analysts predicted that it would be years before the North possessed the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile.
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The second is based on the fact that Iran continues to test technology capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 230.
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The Central Committee of the WPK sent warm congratulations to nuclear scientists and technicians of the northern nuclear test ground on the successful nuclear warhead explosion test.
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Developed during the Iraq War, the munition is an air blast-type warhead that explodes before hitting the ground to project a massive blast from all sides.
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In Deadpool 2, Ryan Reynolds' character doesn't bat an eye when fellow mutant hero Negasonic Teenage Warhead, played by Brianna Hildebrand, introduces him to her girlfriend Yukio.
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US military commanders have long planned on the assumption that North Korea has a warhead and Pyongyang claimed to be able to miniaturize nuclear weapons in 2015.
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Lee Zeldin told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, noting that questions still linger about whether a possible North Korean warhead could survive re-entry from the earth's upper atmosphere.
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In order to make the latter work, you need a much smaller nuclear device than you do for the former — otherwise it won't fit into a warhead.
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While US intelligence analysts have claimed that Pyongyang has produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead, it's not believed that the capability has been tested, according to the sources.
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Last month, a panel at the United Nations said Iran violated existing resolutions when it tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead in October.
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Pyongyang's state media said the test verified the atmospheric re-entry of the warhead, which experts say may be able to reach the U.S. state of Alaska.
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North Korea on Monday boasted of a successful weekend launch of a new type of "medium long-range" ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.
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Concerns about Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal have largely revolved around whether the country could eventually launch a warhead at neighboring South Korea, or even the United States itself.
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But the threat escalated in a major way this week, amid reports that US intelligence agencies assess that North Korea has the produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead.
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Weapons experts say it's almost impossible to verify if the warhead and missile could be successfully paired unless North Korea were to fire a nuclear-tipped ICBM.
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Military action to halt North Korea's march to a missile tipped with a nuclear warhead that could hit the US mainland appears to be a growing possibility.
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Analysts say the North has been struggling to master the so-called warhead re-entry technology needed to build longer-range projectiles known as intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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They said such an altitude was required to test technology that protects a nuclear warhead from the extreme heat and friction encountered upon breaching the earth's atmosphere.
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Blocking a low-yield nuclear weapon The Trump administration's Nuclear Posture Review called for the development of a low-yield nuclear warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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In recent months, North Korea has indicated that it is now capable of building a warhead compact and sophisticated enough to mount on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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As revealed in the strategic forces subcommittee's portions of the bill, the NDAA would also block the deployment of the new submarine-launched, low-yield nuclear warhead.
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Pyongyang's arsenal ranges from short-range Scud-like missiles, to large intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) that may be capable delivering a nuclear warhead to the US mainland.
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The Central Committee of the W.P.K. sent warm congratulations to nuclear scientists and technicians of the northern nuclear test ground on the successful nuclear warhead explosion test.
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They said rogue nations may be willing to use a smaller nuclear warhead because they don't believe the U.S. military would respond with a larger nuclear weapons.
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Either system would be highly destructive with or without a warhead due to the kinetic power of something traveling at over five times the speed of sound.
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Hyten said that despite the nuclear and missile tests, North Korea still had not demonstrated that it had a reliable ICBM that could deliver a nuclear warhead.
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Their method uses neutron beams: streams of neutrons that can plunge deep into a warhead and reveal its internal structure and composition, down to the atomic level.
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On April 28th, North Korea test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile, called a KN-17, designed to carry a nuclear warhead more than two thousand miles.
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North Korea said Sunday that its ballistic missile test over the weekend proved it's capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the state news agency KCNA said Monday.
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It was "aimed at verifying the tactical and technological specifications of the newly developed ballistic rocket capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead," KCNA said.
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North Korea has the kind of nuclear warhead that can fit inside a missile, according to the Washington Post, citing a report written by US intelligence officials.
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Military experts said the increasing expertise, paired with headway in developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, could bring the continental U.S. in reach of a nuclear warhead by 210.
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On July 0003, Pyongyang claimed to have successfully verified the atmospheric re-entry of the warhead loaded on the test-launched missile, known as the Hwasong 14.
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On July 4, Pyongyang claimed to have successfully verified the atmospheric re-entry of the warhead loaded on the test-launched missile, known as the Hwasong 14.
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It would be even more harmful to let New Start, with its mandated caps on nuclear warhead deployments and valuable requirements for verification and data exchanges, unravel.
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The test appeared to move North Korea a step closer to showing that it could place a nuclear warhead atop a rocket capable of hitting U.S. territory.
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But they doubted that North Korea had the ability to hit an intercontinental target with a warhead yet, much less deliver multiple warheads on the same missile.
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It was a photo of Mr. Kim and his entourage gathered around a shiny ball described as a miniaturized bomb meant to fit inside a missile warhead.
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Each of those missiles, armed with a 270,256-pound (453-kilogram) warhead, can hit independent targets as far as 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) from its launch site.
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Pyongyang announced today that the missile it tested on Sunday could carry a nuclear warhead, and that U.S. military bases in the Pacific were within its range.
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Experts say that the missile could reach the eastern U.S., though it's unclear whether the nation is capable of mounting a nuclear warhead to such a missile.
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Also, North Korea likely made progress in reducing the size of its warhead to fit on a missile, solving a key challenge of building a deliverable weapon.
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It is unclear that the United States will accept a nuclear North Korea with the reliable capacity to deliver a nuclear warhead to the continental United States.
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The best outcome in the short-term would be talks to freeze North Korea's nuclear warhead and ballistic missile programs as a first step towards total dismantlement.
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What's more, unlike a traditional missile, which carries one warhead, the Bulava missile is capable of carrying up to 10 nuclear and hypersonic weapons on its tip.
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The U.S. government is now estimated to have 6,800 nuclear weapons at its disposal, but America hasn't actually built a new warhead or bomb since the 1990s.
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The Soviets achieved a successful warhead intercept and deployed a nuclear-tipped A-6900 anti-ballistic missile system around Moscow in 2628, followed by more advanced rockets.
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What's more, unlike a traditional missile which carries one warhead, the Bulava missile is capable of carrying up to 003 nuclear and hypersonic weapons on its tip.
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China's nuclear warhead inventory is estimated at 290 for use on ballistic missiles and bomber aircraft, the Bulletin said in its 2019 report on Beijing's nuclear forces.
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It's unclear whether Pyongyang has achieved this goal however, as there's no way of knowing if the warhead would survive the stresses placed on it during reentry.
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Baker pointed to multiple-warhead missiles—some of which are terrifying super-weapons of almost unfathomable sophistication—as a potential dodge of the US missile defense system.
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Hanham also said the fact that the missile's re-entry vehicle flew so high above the Earth put it under more stress than a warhead might undergo when fired on a more normal, flatter trajectory North Korean engineers "may well be able to draw warhead re-entry data from that which is applicable to their ICBM ambitions," said Euan Graham, an expert on North Korea at Australia's Lowy Institute.
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Liquid fuel missiles like the one that failed in April 2017 can cause large explosions, even without a warhead, when the hypergolic propellant and oxidizer mix on impact.
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One recent video showed a missile aircraft with a light airframe, which would be able to carry a heavy nuclear warhead all the way to the US continent.
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For example, if Russia moved a warhead off a missile and into a facility for repairs, Moscow would tell the State Department's Nuclear Risk Reduction Center about that.
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While the claims of a miniaturized warhead are impossible to verify with just images alone, there's nothing that makes it obvious that the device is a complete fake.
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Bloomberg reports that Pyongyang is aiming to build an intercontinental ballistic missile that can travel farther than 3,400 miles while carrying a warhead weighing at least one ton.
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Clara was given a Warhead for the first time and her reaction aptly explains not only how the candy tastes, but how it feels to enter early adulthood.
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Although a bigger bomb would be better, current US nuclear warhead sizes would be sufficient to deflect a very large asteroid that comes out of nowhere, Dearborn said.
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This year, North Korea carried out its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, and claimed it could miniaturize a nuclear warhead and mount it onto a missile.
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Han is not convinced North Korea can miniaturize nuclear weapons or fit a nuclear warhead onto a missile, as claimed by Pyongyang, but acknowledges that practice makes perfect.
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South Korea worries that Pyongyang is progressing toward its goal of mounting a nuclear warhead to ballistic missiles "faster than previously estimated," a South Korean lawmaker told reporters.
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However, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded in December 2015 that Iran worked on the design of a missile-borne nuclear warhead until 2009.
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The SATAN 2, officially called the RS-28 Sarmat (SATAN is its NATO namesake) is a Russian super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with a thermonuclear warhead.
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North Korea said it successfully conducted a nuclear test, its most powerful blast yet, and that it had the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
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Earlier this month, the country said it had performed its fifth nuclear test, claiming to have successfully detonated a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on ballistic rockets.
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North Korea said it tested a miniaturized nuclear warhead on Friday as protection against "threats and sanctions" from hostile elements, according to the isolated state's official news agency.
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The missile firing Thursday comes a day after the North released photos of leader Kim Jong-un standing beside what appears to be a nuclear warhead mock-up.
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He said he believed Pyongyang had the capability to miniaturize a warhead for shorter missiles, but not yet for intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, concluded in December 2015, however, that Iran worked on the design of a missile-borne nuclear warhead until 2009.
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While US intelligence analysts have assessed that North Korea has produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead, it's not believed that the capability has been tested, according to the sources.
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Friday's test was designed to show the Hwasong-14 missile's maximum range with a "large-sized heavy nuclear warhead," a statement from Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency said.
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The chief U.S. concern is North Korea's efforts to develop an intercontinental nuclear missile that could carry a nuclear warhead and be capable of hitting the United States.
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The test was "aimed at verifying the tactical and technological specifications of the newly developed ballistic rocket capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead," KCNA said.
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When taken together, these developments are concerning because North Korea says it is trying to develop a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the United States.
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WASHINGTON — An underwater drone armed with a nuclear warhead is slated to join Russia's arsenal no earlier than 2027, people familiar with a U.S. intelligence assessment told CNBC.
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But with North Korea on the brink of building a missile that could deliver a nuclear warhead to the United States, he said, "that may mean an exception."
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