大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 intercontinental ballistic missile


释义：

intercontinental ballistic missile 洲际弹道导弹；洲际导弹

例句：



Blair said North Korea is using its upcoming space launch as a cover for its intercontinental ballistic missile program.


"I think that North Korea is attempting to demonstrate an ICBM [i.e.,intercontinental ballistic missile capability through a space launch.


Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Secretary Gates said the U.S.intelligence community believes that Iran has been slower to develop its intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities than previously thought.


The US has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test scheduled for next week, defence officials say.


The move accentuates new worries North Korea has accelerated progress in its intercontinental ballistic missile program.


The launch indicates that Iran is acquiring greater prowess in developing intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities.


India has successfully launched a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead, officials say.


Iran is still capable of testing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile by 2015 "without sufficient foreign assistance, " the report added.


Repeated failures of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile caused embarrassment for Russia, though two successful tests were reportedly conducted last year.


Tensions have run high on the Korean Peninsula for months, with North Korea testing a nuclear device and its intercontinental ballistic missile technology.


Over the past several years, Iranian nuclear officials have been on hand for all of North Korea's major tests including its first nuclear test and its intercontinental ballistic missile test in 2006.


In June 1992, President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a "framework agreement" (1) in Washington that provided for the complete elimination of all multiple-warheaded land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (MIRVed ICBM) systems.


Last week, Miller told the Atlantic Council that "North Korea's shrill public pronouncements underscore the need for the U.S. to continue to take prudent steps to defeat any future North Korean" intercontinental ballistic missile.


The second is to instill fear in the American public by one day demonstrating its capability to marry a nuclear warhead with an intercontinental ballistic missile with the range to hit the U.S. West Coast.


It appears to be progressing toward that goal, however, and Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee that North Korea has also taken initial steps toward fielding what appears to be a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.


We are not sure that Iran has a missile that could reach Europe, and I think we do know that Iran does not have an intercontinental ballistic missile that it could launch and reach the United States.


Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.


From August 1998 to February 2000, Myers was commander-in-chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command, and commander of Air Force Space Command, responsible for U.S. defense via space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations.


There seems little doubt that the President will indeed shortly unveil a plan that goes well beyond the elimination of the MX intercontinental ballistic missile and the reduction by one-third of the B-1 bomber force unveiled two weeks ago.


Last week, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy James Miller told the Atlantic Council that "North Korea's shrill public pronouncements underscore the need for the U.S. to continue to take prudent steps to defeat any future North Korean" intercontinental ballistic missile.


The national security and commercial implications of this decision have been exacerbated, however, by two other, seemingly unrelated actions: President Obama's decision to stop producing long-range missile defense interceptors and to defer indefinitely any replacement of our aging nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile force.


Monday's launch means the North Koreans are a big step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to Richard Speier, a former missile-proliferation expert at the Pentagon.