Crossword clues for icbm
icbm
- Minuteman III, e.g
- Minuteman III or Peacekeeper
- Mil. weapon
- Long-range threat, briefly
- Guided weapon, for short
- DOD projectile
- Disarmament subj
- Cold War acronym
- Atlas, Titan or Minuteman
- Weapon that may be launched from a silo: Abbr
- Weapon stored in a silo
- Weapon of modern warfare
- Weapon in a silo (abbr.)
- Warhead, briefly
- Warhead vehicle, briefly
- Titan or Atlas, for short
- Threatening Cold War weapon
- The USA's Peacekeeper, e.g
- Subj. of a National Historic Site outside Wall, S.D
- Subj. of a military test
- START I treaty subj
- Sophisticated attack rocket (abbr.)
- Siloed USAF weapon
- Silo weapon, for short
- Silo weapon
- Silo occupant
- Silo filler, in brief
- SDI defense target
- SDI concern
- SALT-covered item
- SALT warhead
- SALT treaty topic
- Real "Star Wars" weapon
- Polaris, for one (abbr.)
- Polaris, e.g.: Abbr
- Part of a nuclear arsenal
- Nuke deliverer [The AV xword goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com]
- Nuclear-arsenal weapon, for short
- Nuclear weapon (Abbr.)
- Nuclear sub weapon
- Minuteman, e.g., briefly
- Minuteman or Atlas
- Mil. missile
- Long-range wpn
- Long-range US nuclear weapon: Abbr
- Long-range nuke carrier
- Long-range military rocket: Abbr
- Long-dist. weapon
- Long-dist. threat
- Latter-day Minuteman
- Land-based weapon (abbr.)
- Kinda-modern weapon
- Item covered by SALT
- Global threat (abbr.)
- Disarmament talks subj
- Concern for a Norad radar watcher
- Cold War weapon inits
- Cold War weapon initials
- Cold War projectile (Abbr.)
- Cold War missile
- China's DF-31, e.g
- Certain silo's contents
- Atlas or Titan, for short
- Atlas or Titan
- Aerial weapon, for short
- A weapon called the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, for example: Abbr
- "Sputnik" booster
- Part of the U.S. arsenal
- Weapon in a silo, for short
- Silo occupant, briefly
- Nuclear weapon, for short
- S.D.I. concern
- Part of a nuclear arsenal, for short
- Silo contents, for short
- Warhead carrier, for short
- Weapon that can cross the Atl. or Pac.
- Titan II, perhaps
- Weapon in modern warfare
- SALT subject
- Silo filler, for short
- Minuteman, e.g.: Abbr.
- SALT concern
- Mil. weapon that can cross an ocean
- Weapon in U.S./Russ. negotiations
- SALT topic
- Warhead weapon, briefly
- Long-range weapon, for short
- Long-range weapon, briefly
- Sub's weapon, perhaps
- Warhead weapon, for short
- Titan, e.g.
- Nuclear weapon delivery device, for short
- Titan or Atlas, briefly
- Minuteman III, e.g.
- Weapon with a warhead, in brief
- Subj. of 1991's Start treaty
- Transoceanic flier, briefly
- A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
- Titan, for one
- Long-range wpn.
- Mod. weapon
- Titan or Minuteman, e.g
- Missile, for short
- Weapon that can cross the Atl. or Pac
- Cold War threat
- Atlas, for one
- SALT weapon
- Long-range nuke: Abbr
- Atlas or Minuteman
- Minuteman, e.g.: Abbr
- Long-range weapon: Abbr
- Cold War weapon, for short
- Cold War weapon (Abbr.)
- Cold War weapon: Abbr
- Long-range warhead carrier, briefly
- A WMD
- Weapon in a silo, briefly
- Peacekeeper, e.g
- Minuteman, for one
- Minuteman III or Peacekeeper, e.g
- Early Atlas rocket, e.g
- DOD weapon
- Wide-ranging weapon
- Warhead toter
- Titan, e.g
- Titan or Minuteman
- Titan II, e.g
- Titan covered by SALT
- Subject of SALT
- Siloed weapon
- SALT treaty subject
- SALT focus
- Pt. of a nuclear arsenal
- Part of the US arsenal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ICBM \ICBM\ n. [acronym intercontinental ballistic missile] An intercontinental ballistic missile, a long-range ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another. Contrasted with IRBM.
Syn: intercontinental ballistic missile.
ballistic missile \bal*lis"tic mis`sile\, n. A rocket-propelled missile of long range which is guided only during the powered portion of its flight, which usually takes only a small part of the total flight time; -- contrasted with guided missile.
Note: Ballistic missiles are sometimes referred to by their range, such as an
intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM) or an
intermediate range ballistic missile ( IRBM).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1955, initialism (acronym) for Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile.
Usage examples of "icbm".
Not only would it be able to cover ninety percent of the Soviet Union with an early-warning radar screen and look in on any part of the US via the astoundingly advanced American-built spy satellites, but it would also be able to independently target any of the Red Star ICBMs with pinpoint accuracy to any spot on the globe.
A program that had showed how the root invention of refrigeration had led to both frozen foods and ICBMs.
That's just a sample and I'll pass on-but please note its beautiful simplicity compared with H-bombs and ICBMs.
It is my fervent prayer that even if we should commit ourselves to a limited conflict, it will not spread into a worldwide holocaust, and that our ICBMs will rest forever in their silos, and our jet bombers will continue confined to their runways or routine missions, and that our Polaris submarines will cruise under the seas with their nuclear rockets safely unarmed.
They'd nailed dozens of ICBMs in flight, missiles we'd retasked as antisatellite weapons, then fried the silos those rockets launched from.
Those eight Typhoons alone carried unimaginable potential firepower, 160 ICBMs, mounting a total of over twelve hundred warheads of one-hundred-kiloton yield apiece.