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missile

An object intended to be launched at a target. A self-propelled object whose path can be changed after having been launched.

missile

a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control (= projectile) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled

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Simple sentences

The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
The world was on the very brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
This missile is a mobile weapon which can be moved rapidly from one place to another.
Everyone in Hawaii received an emergency alert that a ballistic missile was inbound.

Movie subtitles

This is Colonel Breen of the Guided Missile Group.
Comrade, one missile makes a noise.
The B-29 was a rough plane, but it can't keep up with a guided missile.
He's studying to be a missile engineer.
I'm a missile scientist.
In Cape Canaveral, if missile goes wrong. they press special button and pow!
One to blow up missile, one to blow up scientist.
He waits until the moon is directly above the castle, then strikes a light, and the well turns into a fiery missile that flies straight to the moon!
Throwing the controls of a guided missile off balance with a radio beam.
Five million dollars' worth of missile aimed at a spot in the South Atlantic and finishing up in the Brazilian jungle is bad enough.
Missile complex seven miles east of Borchov.
If, on the other hand we immediately launched an attack on their airfields and missile bases we'd stand a good chance of catching them with their pants down.
We've got a 5-to-1 missile superiority.
Looks like a missile tracking us.
We can uncouple the warhead, position the Dolphin III at the proper elevation, and send the missile off. Mathematically, at least, it should be possible to reach the station's orbit and in time.
A nonviolent Missile, Mr. Surabhai?
A guided missile?
Alert the missile base and keep that line open.
Missile base, missile base.
We can spot any plane, any missile, anything that's airborne.
We know how you feel, but we're trying to protect our countries from a guided missile attack.
Adapt a complicated guidance system to a huge ballistic rocket. Convert it to a water-to-air interceptor missile. It was foolish.
This is our missile-tracking tape.
If we have to shoot, we like to know where the missile is going.
The missile and escape room.
An atomic missile, Doctor, fired from the submarine Seavíew.
The missile will arc along the burning belt.
And what do they do to the guy that throws a grenade, fires a mortar shell, aims a navy gun, drops the airplane bomb, or presses a button that sends a missile 5,000 miles with a hydrogen warhead?
Five: if, on the other hand. we immediately launched an attack on their airfields and missile bases. we'd stand a damn good chance of catching them with their pants down.
Missile still closing range.
Missile still tracking and closing distance.
Missile still tracking steady and closing distance.
Missile still closing true and steady.
Missile still closing distance and tracking steady.
Missile track deflecting.
Missile still deflecting.
Missile detonated!
Have we an anti-Satan missile?
A missile attack could be launched without any warning.

News and current affairs

Missile defenses could be expanded; the United States could extend security guarantees so that Iran would understand that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would be met with a decisive American response.
During the Cuban missile crisis, he did not try to humiliate or win a total victory over the Soviet Union.
But now, following the North's recent nuclear tests, and given its improving ballistic-missile capabilities, that approach is no longer tenable.
Both countries have many reasons to pursue this goal, considering North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, terrorism, and the numerous challenges to stability around the world.
Missile defense has become another bone of contention.
It scoffs at assertions that Russia would cheat by multiplying warheads on bombers or new rail-based missile carriers, arguing that the Kremlin would want to avoid America's compensatory response.
BERLIN: Like old battle horses feeling young as the bugle sounds, Cold War strategists are feeling the adrenalin mount as missile defense becomes front page news.
After all, the history of missile defense is a tale of technology constantly disappointing its advocates in and out of government.
By limiting strategic missile defense, the old treaty provides a certain predictability of deterrence for all nuclear weapon states.
The main question NMD poses is not how to prepare for a future world of missile defense but how to dampen today's political concerns.
Legal experts in Washington suggest that modest preparations for building missile and radar sites do not violate the ABM-Treaty and so do not yet require a US notice to quit.
The most important of confidence-building measures, a modification of the ABM-Treaty to allow for limited missile defense, is being explored.
Missile defense is not a threat to US-Russian strategic stability; its mishandling is a threat to political predictability.
So long as the danger of nuclear and missile proliferation in North Korea remains, the peninsula will remain a potential source of conflict.
In three years of increasingly bloody conflict, the only diplomatic success was achieved when Assad believed that he faced US missile strikes. He suddenly saw the desirability of getting rid of his chemical weapons.
The threat of cruise-missile strikes last September was enough to send Al Qaeda members in Syria scrambling for the hills.
That means that tomorrow it could bid for contracts to build missile bases on the coast of the People's Republic of China.
Another, equally important challenge is cooperation between NATO and Russia, which agreed at NATO's Lisbon summit in November to collaborate on the Alliance's anti-missile defenses.
On the other hand, the missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, and the prospect of NATO accession for Georgia and Ukraine, assume confrontation where this was not at all necessary.
SEOUL - South Korean officials have recently realized that the United States is likely to try to forbid them from enriching uranium and expanding their country's missile range, rather than leave these issues on the diplomatic back burner.
Rather, it reflects concern about a nuclear North Korea, compounded by anxiety over the recent US-Japan missile-defense accord.

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