Word: warheaded
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...feature in the American proposals of late 1985 came as an unpleasant surprise to the Soviets, and to many in the U.S. as well. It was a move to ban mobile ICBMs, including single-warhead missiles like the planned Midgetman. The prohibition was shoehorned into the U.S. position at the behest of Perle and the Pentagon. They wanted to stop the Soviet deployment of mobiles, which had already begun...
...capital before, until now it lacked missiles that could reach Tehran, 280 miles from its border. The longer-range weapons reportedly are Soviet-made Scud B missiles, which usually travel up to 174 miles; the Iraqis may have increased the reach of the missiles by reducing the explosive warhead or by adding boosters...
...felt as though I had asked how to disarm a nuclear warhead. I laughed at him, thus losing the continuity of my shaving process, which could have had detrimental drying effects on my complexion, but it was worth...
...flying the U.S. flag, peered out the window of the bridge and saw it coming. "It looked like an oxygen tank and was smoking in the rear," he recalled later. "I told the captain 'Look!,' but it was too late." Seconds later the missile slammed into the ship. The warhead exploded in the officers' quarters of the vessel, which two days earlier had left behind its escort of U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf and sailed into Kuwaiti waters to load up with refined-petroleum products. Eighteen crew members were injured, including the American captain and radioman...
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based organization that keeps track of military arsenals around the world, Kuwait is known to have purchased SA-7s from Russia. The SA-7 is a small, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile that relies on a heat-seeking warhead...