After returning to China, he became the father of the country's intercontinental missile program.

We have never succeeded in shooting down an intercontinental missile.

Intercontinental missiles were still being built by one little fundamentalist country after another.

Destroying third world intercontinental missiles, if it should ever become necessary, can easily be done on the ground.

Modern bombers and intercontinental missiles have long since wiped out that justification.

They range from artillery shells that travel a dozen miles to intercontinental missiles.

We know that it has a stolen intercontinental missile.

Currently each has more than 5,000 warheads available for use on intercontinental missiles or bombers.

Nuclear arms and intercontinental missiles confirmed this: it is America we have to match."

Apples are to Japanese and American trade policy what intercontinental missiles were to the cold war.

Had he been allowed to further develop or buy nuclear arms and intercontinental missiles, stopping him in the future would come at an unacceptable cost.

But one expert said that intercontinental missiles would be of no use to Chinese forces fighting one another.

That is where China's nuclear-armed intercontinental missiles come in.

The simple, straightforward way to deal with mobile intercontinental missiles is to ban them, and their testing, entirely.

Russia would put multiple warheads on its intercontinental missiles.

To attract the fire of the intercontinental missiles.

Perhaps it reflects a Soviet belief that a nuclear war would be fought with intercontinental missiles, not bombers.

French officials worry that China, for one, might decide to deploy hundreds of intercontinental missiles rather than the score or so it has now.

"My country has a number of nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles.

They understood that nuclear weapons and, from the late 1950s, intercontinental missiles could produce terrible levels of mutual destruction.

Some dictator is going to call in the world press to take pictures of his intercontinental missile and its atomic warhead.

But it insists that the 176 intercontinental missiles on its territory are legally Ukrainian property.

Many airplanes also use an inertial guidance system, like that used on the space shuttle or an intercontinental missile, he said.

Washington remains years away from perfecting a defensive system that can reliably shoot down intercontinental missiles.

"An intercontinental missile with an eight-thousand-mile range, ready for launch in a little over sixty seconds.