Sentence examples for warheads beyond from inspiring English sources

A number of arms control experts said the United States reserve of nuclear weapons currently numbers several thousand warheads beyond the 6,000 in active service.

In fact, by some estimates, the United States and Russia together could still deploy some 1,300 warheads beyond the 3,100 ceiling imposed on the two countries by the new treaty.

Today, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with Adm. Richard W. Mies, the commander of the strategic force, appeared before the Senate's Armed Services Committee and testified that they would oppose any further reductions in warheads beyond Start III, something that Russia has proposed.

The significance of the finding is that it points to the possibility of a covert, parallel programme to produce fissile material for a missile warhead, beyond the reach of the IAEA's mandate to monitor declared stockpiles of enriched uranium, and ore.

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee called on the Obama administration on Thursday to seek cuts in nuclear warheads far beyond the requirements of current treaties.

Mr. Obama announced in a speech last month in Berlin that he wanted to negotiate another round of arms cuts with Russia, cutting each side's stock of deployed strategic warheads by another third beyond the New Start treaty signed in his first term.

After 1962, with their RPG-7, they combined recoilless launch with a rocket sustainer to deliver a five-pound warhead to targets beyond 500 yards.

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.

Any further reductions beyond that must include, for the first time, warheads held in reserve and short-range nuclear weapons, as well as the deployed strategic warheads.

But beyond the staggering size of the reductions -- 4,000 warheads, give or take a thousand, for each side -- the latest exercise in strategic diplomacy between what used to be two superpowers seemed only to seal the victory of one, the United States.

America and other countries believe the launch was in fact a test of a Taepodong-2 missile, capable of carrying nuclear warheads as far as Alaska, but that it failed, falling into the sea beyond Japan.