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Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

Strategic

A missile with a range of over 5,500 km that flies up out of the atmosphere and comes back down on a target on another continent within about 30 minutes. ICBMs are kept in underground silos or on large road-mobile launchers.
They are designed to carry nuclear warheads and form the land-based leg of the nuclear triad.

Well-known examples

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Minuteman III & Sentinel (USA) RS-24 Yars & RS-28 Sarmat (Russia) DF-41 & DF-5 (China) Agni-V (India) Hwasong-17/18 (North Korea)

All models of this type (69)

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Countries with the most — Nuclear warheads

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  1. 1Russian Federation5,420
  2. 2United States5,042
  3. 3China620
  4. 4France370
  5. 5United Kingdom225
  6. 6India190
  7. 7Pakistan170
  8. 8Israel90
  9. 9Korea, Dem. People's Rep.60