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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation submarine-launched ballistic missile

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  • initialism weaponry Submarine-launched ballistic missile

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Examples

  • The soviets was watching on radar a high flying aircraft coming from the North thinking perhaps it was the first wave of B52 Bombers as NORAD was watching a missile launch possibly a Soviet SLBM from the south east corner of Florida.

    North Korea 2009

  • Obviously, the USAF's ICBM programs and the USN's SLBM programs provide perfect examples, but the prime example is, of course, the Manhattan Project, which produced not one but two operational weapon systems in a crash program, complimented by the USAAF's long-range heavy bomber program, which produced both the Boeing B-29 and the Convair B-32, and both of them in time to carry either one of the weapons ...

    What Would Wernher Do? - NASA Watch 2009

  • The soviets was watching on radar a high flying aircraft coming from the North thinking perhaps it was the first wave of B52 Bombers as NORAD was watching a missile launch possibly a Soviet SLBM from the south east corner of Florida.

    North Korea 2009

  • So, it simply looks like an SLBM has been modified for land launch.

    Does Kazakhstan Launch Satellites From Submarines? - NASA Watch 2009

  • It is also important that each deployed and nondeployed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) or heavy bomber will have assigned to it a unique code identifier that will be included in notifications any time the ICBM or SLBM or heavy bomber is moved or changes status.

    Learning From Experience on Arms Control 2010

  • The White House site states, in part: "A combined limit of 800 deployed and non-deployed ICBM [inter-continental ballistic missile] launchers, SLBM [sea-launched ballistic missile] launchers, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments; a separate limit of 700 deployed ICBMs, deployed SLBMs, and deployed heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments."

    The New Start Treaty Ignores Most Nuclear Weapons 2010

  • In the end, we agreed that any reentry vehicle nuclear or non-nuclear-armed contained on an existing type of ICBM or SLBM would be counted under the central limits of the treaty.

    After START, when do we stop the one-sided deals? Jennifer Rubin 2010

  • A single Ohio-class submarine has enough firepower to devastate Iran completely - imagine the twenty-four largest population centres in the country each struck by a multible warhead SLBM.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • SLBM, when you absolutely, positively, have to annihilate the enemy in 2 hours.

    Memories of the Falklands 2007

  • And we don't yet have the kind of weapons, the bunker-buster bombs, the conventional ICBM or SLBM, that can actually go in and do conventional damage at the level we need to destroy those facilities.

    CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007 2007

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