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  • noun Plural form of warhead.

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Examples

  • The concept that we would be less safe if we dismantle some of our warheads is simplistic.

    Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010

  • A US intercontinental ballistic missile base, equipped with a vast underground network of tunnels and rooms but no atomic warheads, is for sale in a remote corner of the United States.

    Nuclear Missile Base for Sale on eBay | Impact Lab 2007

  • (Whether North Korea has such warheads is not definitively known, but it is widely believed to have in the neighborhood of ten — and the KFR certainly has the materials and technological know-how to build them.)

    When North Korea Falls 2006

  • Recently it has also thrown the business into reverse, as one of two sites in Russia where fissile material from existing warheads is extracted before shipment to another closed city for blending down.

    How to Get a Nuclear Bomb 2006

  • (Whether North Korea has such warheads is not definitively known, but it is widely believed to have in the neighborhood of ten — and the KFR certainly has the materials and technological know-how to build them.)

    When North Korea Falls 2006

  • Recently it has also thrown the business into reverse, as one of two sites in Russia where fissile material from existing warheads is extracted before shipment to another closed city for blending down.

    How to Get a Nuclear Bomb 2006

  • But, he called the warheads as an “insurance policy.”

    France To Reduce Nukes By One-Third 2008

  • (Whether North Korea has such warheads is not definitively known, but it is widely believed to have in the neighborhood of ten — and the KFR certainly has the materials and technological know-how to build them.)

    When North Korea Falls 2006

  • Pearson, after a careful review of his philosophical position on national defence, announced his willingness to accept nuclear warheads from the United States, the Liberal Party was voted enough strength to establish a government with Pearson as prime minister.

    Lester Bowles Pearson - Biography 1957

  • a 30% reduction of strategic nuclear warheads is not like saying, "go ahead and punch me, i'm not going to retaliate".

    Obama brushes off Palin on nuclear deal 2010

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