Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation intercontinental ballistic missile
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An intercontinental ballistic missile, a long-range ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another. Contrasted with
IRBM .
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- initialism weaponry Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
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Examples
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Having a single 25mt warhead attached to an ICBM is as much deterrent as this country needs.
Think Progress » The death of a maverick: John McCain backtracks on nuclear policy. 2010
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Having a single 25mt warhead attached to an ICBM is as much deterrent as this country needs.
Think Progress » The death of a maverick: John McCain backtracks on nuclear policy. 2010
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Having a single 25mt warhead attached to an ICBM is as much deterrent as this country needs.
Think Progress » The death of a maverick: John McCain backtracks on nuclear policy. 2010
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How about the debacle called Cosmos 1 - it was supposed to be the first solar sail satellite, but in a combination of saving money and making some outdated political symbolism, they had Cosmos 1 launched on a Russian ICBM from a submarine.
Flip Flopping Road Map from The Planetary Society - NASA Watch 2008
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The documents, titled "ICBM Training Material," will show up on the first page of the list, and you can download them as a PDF.
Chris Rodda: Michael Savage Attacks Mikey Weinstein Over Stopping of Air Force "Jesus Loves Nukes" Training Chris Rodda 2011
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The documents, titled "ICBM Training Material," will show up on the first page of the list, and you can download them as a PDF.
Chris Rodda: Michael Savage Attacks Mikey Weinstein Over Stopping of Air Force "Jesus Loves Nukes" Training Chris Rodda 2011
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The Pentagon mumbled all kinds of assurances that Beijing or Moscow would never, ever, never misinterpret one kind of ICBM for the other.
GlobalResearch.ca 2010
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It was a new kind of ICBM (the first mobile one ever launched).
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010
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It was a new kind of ICBM (the first mobile one ever launched).
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010
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It was a new kind of ICBM (the first mobile one ever launched).
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010
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