Sentence examples for warhead about from inspiring English sources

Sue: There's a nuclear warhead about to go off.

The interceptor missile was fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, north of Santa Barbara, Calif., striking the target warhead about eight minutes later, officials said.

If one side starts lobbing warheads about, the other responds in kind.

Mr. Obama's main proposal was an offer to seek to reduce deployed strategic weapons by about one-third beyond the New Start level of 1,550 warheads, to about 1,000 warheads.

With max loadout, a US missile sub carries something like 288 warheads on 24 missiles; each warhead has about 25 times as much destructive power as the Hiroshima bomb.

Although the United States now has about 2,100 deployed strategic warheads, about 450 would not be counted, Mr. Kristensen estimated.

Of America's 2750 or so land-based nuclear warheads, about 1850 sit on top of Minuteman and MX missiles in the Great Plains.

"[Russia has] approximately 12,000 nuclear warheads — about 2,600 of them deployed with "strategic" missiles and bombers capable of crossing the oceans — [and so] remains the sole force on Earth that could terminate the existence of the United States on any given day.

If one side starts throwing warheads about, the other responds in kind.

In precisely scripted flight tests above the Pacific, interceptors have failed to hit mock-enemy warheads about half the time.

In those tests, the system has failed to destroy mock enemy warheads about half the time, which led many government and independent analysts to conclude that it is unreliable.