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nW
(redirected from nuclear warhead)

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NWNorthwest
NWNetwork
NWNetWeaver (SAP)
NWNo Way (chat)
NWNetWare (Novell)
NwNorwegian (linguistics)
NWNow What?
NWNorthwest Airlines (IATA airline code)
NWNeverwinter
NWNew Wave
NWNuclear Waste
NWNuclear Weapon
NWNidwalden (Swiss Half Canton)
NWNo Worries (chat)
NWNightwish (band)
NWNetWorker
NWNon-Woven (fabric)
NWNet Weight
NWNuclear Warhead
NWNuclear Warfare
NWNinja Warrior (game show)
nWNanowatt (one-billionth of a watt)
NWLondon Northwest (postcode, United Kingdom)
NWNormal Waste
NWNorfolk and Western Railway Company
NWNational Waterway (India)
NWNegligible Weathering
NWnot waiverable (US DoD)
NWNormalized Water Leaving Radiance
NWNorwold (gaming)
NWNetworks' Watchdog (Ewbury)
NWNoble Wrestling


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The rip-roaring climax puts readers in the situation room as President James "Mac" MacPherson races against time to take out an Iraqi ICBM fitted with a nuclear warhead, finally deciding to pre-emptively nuke Baghdad and Tikrit to remove the threat.
Dropped from afar, the bunker buster allegedly drills toward its underground target where its smallish nuclear warhead detonates with devastating effect on the enemy below the surface.
On the issue of strategic stability, in the past few years Russia and the United States have signed a number of bilateral treaties on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons, including the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, reducing the number of nuclear warheads to 1,700 to 2,200 by the year 2012.
 
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