Meanings of intercontinental rockets in English

But the moment those guided missiles appeared-especially those devilish ground-to-ground intercontinental rockets-civilisation was doomed.

The Chinese aimed to blanket the Russian industrial regions with a cobalt fall-out, city by city, put there with their intercontinental rockets.

His son Sergei was taken aback when Khrushchev boasted that the Soviet Union was churning out intercontinental rockets "like sausages."

As if in punctuation, a deep rumble shook the huge palace; one of the enemy's intercontinental rockets, launched in desperation, had reached the capital city.