ICBM
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7.9
- noun
- /ˌaɪ siː biː ˈɛm/
- Specialized
:
misil balístico intercontinental
- Under his leadership, the Soviet Union developed combat-ready intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and nuclear weapons with increasingly large yields.
- ICBMs and SLBMs
- mobile ICBMs
- heavy ICBMs
We have ICBM silos under the ground.
- We have ICBM silos under the ground.
- If we are sending ICBM's at North Korea, they have to fly over Russia.
- If they're if we launch a counter attack against say, North Korea, our ICBM's must fly over Russia.
- And we have this treaty that suggests that we are not going to have any more ICBM launchers and we're going to limit the number that we can have.
- And so banning MERV land based ICBM's, which we did under start to is not on the table and it should be.
- It's called an ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile, so that it can travel from one continent to the other.
- Yeah, if you're building a bunch of ICBM's, we see them.
- The missile that I write about, the ICBM that hits the Pentagon.
- And the cell towers happen to be extremely close to ICBM sites.
- So he can't make ICBM's in a few weeks, but he can do something else.
- The theater majors, that thing detects ICBMS.
- We have the ICBM's in the ground, we have the this, the missiles and the Subs.
Examples
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Our detection satellites give us a thirty-minute warning of their incoming ICBMs, which is all we need to take out Moscow within minutes after they hit Washington, D.C.
Fiction book (1995) -
The United States successfully test-fired an ICBM that can hit targets over 6,000 miles away.
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We have ICBM silos under the ground.
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So ICBM silos are areas where we have our National Defense weapons and our national attack weapons.
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You need one warhead and an ICBM to take out a national grid.
Blog text (20) -
Israel has nuclear submarines that can launch ICBMs at any target on the planet.
Blog text (2) -
This morning, the first full-range firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, was conducted by the United States.
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Kim Jong-un's military forces targeted an uninhabited South Pacific island with a 15-megaton thermonuclear ICBM.
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North Korea proudly announced the development of a new ICBM capable of reaching the mainland U.S.
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During the Cold War, both superpowers stockpiled ICBMs as a deterrent against nuclear attacks.
Synonyms
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7.4
A long range rocket that can fly between continents and carry a nuclear bomb
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Surface Forms
Morphology
ICBM = I + C + B + M
ICBM is an initialism whose component letters do not function as English morphemes, so the meaning cannot be derived from the parts by an average learner.
Etymology
ICBM comes from the first letters of Intercontinental ('between continents'), Ballistic ('like a thrown ball'), and Missile ('a weapon sent to a target'). So an ICBM is a rocket-like weapon that travels a long path between continents and can carry a nuclear warhead.