ICBM
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English
Noun
ICBM (plural ICBMs)
- (weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
- 1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:
- Just sing out a Te Deum / When you see that ICBM / And the party will be come-as-you-are
- 2002, Alexander T. Lennon, Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-first Century, MIT Press, →ISBN:
- Iraq could test a North Korean-type ICBM that could deliver a several-hundred-kilogram payload to the United States in the last half of the next decade [the decade beginning with calendar year 2000] depending on the level of foreign assistance.
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abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile
Japanese
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ICBM • (aishībīemu)