The Obama administration's plan will replace Bush's anti-missile plan with a re-designed sea- and ground-based system, which destroys short and mid-range missiles instead of intercontinental missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Steve Andreasen, is a former arms control expert on the National Security Council, "It places limitations on strategic nuclear delivery vehicles - that is long-range bombers and long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles on submarines and based on land.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

This means, obviously, that the number of states with intercontinental missiles grew by three the day the Soviet Union collapsed.

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Interceptors are vehicles that are launched to intercept intercontinental missiles in flight.

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And you know very well that at that time, on the territory of Kazakhstan, there was 1, 100 warheads were deployed on the intercontinental missiles.

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