United States nuclear triad

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The United States nuclear triad is the three-pronged strategic deterrent system consisting of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bomber aircraft.

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf nuclear triad
strategic deterrent system
airLegAircraft B-1B Lancer
B-21 Raider
B-2 Spirit
surface form: B-2A Spirit

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
surface form: B-52H Stratofortress
airLegBaseType strategic bomber bases
airLegOperatedBy United States Air Force
airLegWeaponType air-launched cruise missiles
gravity nuclear bombs
commandAndControl U.S. Strategic Command
surface form: United States Strategic Command
component land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles
strategic bombers
submarine-launched ballistic missiles
country United States of America
surface form: United States
developedBy Department of Defense
surface form: United States Department of Defense
era Cold War
feature ability to respond under nuclear attack
diverse delivery systems
survivability through redundancy
governedBy Nuclear Posture Review
surface form: United States Nuclear Posture Review
historicalPrecursor United States Air Force Strategic Air Command
surface form: Strategic Air Command bomber force
landLegBasingMode silo-based ICBMs
landLegLocation contiguous United States
surface form: continental United States
landLegMissileType ICBM
landLegOperatedBy United States Air Force
landLegSystem Minuteman III
surface form: LGM-30G Minuteman III
maintainedBy Department of Defense
surface form: United States Department of Defense
policyContext United States national security strategy
United States nuclear weapons policy
purpose assured destruction capability
nuclear deterrence
second-strike capability
strategic deterrence
regulatedBy New START Treaty
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
surface form: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties
role deterring large-scale conventional aggression
deterring nuclear attack on the United States
seaLegMissileType SLBM
seaLegOperatedBy United States Navy
seaLegPatrolAreas Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
seaLegPlatform Columbia-class submarine
surface form: Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines

Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine
surface form: Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines
seaLegSystem Trident II D5 missile
surface form: UGM-133 Trident II
status active
strategicDoctrine mutually assured destruction
threatTypeDeterrence nuclear weapons
strategic adversaries

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: United States nuclear triad
Description of subject: The United States nuclear triad is the three-pronged strategic deterrent system consisting of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bomber aircraft.

Referenced by (13)

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Trident II D5 missile partOf United States nuclear triad
subject surface form: Trident II D5
Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center supports United States nuclear triad
Peacekeeper missile solid rocket motors partOf United States nuclear triad
this entity surface form: United States strategic nuclear triad (land-based component)
StratCom overseesCapability United States nuclear triad
subject surface form: United States Strategic Command
this entity surface form: Nuclear triad
Polaris missile system partOf United States nuclear triad
Air Force Global Strike Command responsibleFor United States nuclear triad
this entity surface form: United States intercontinental ballistic missile forces
Air Force Global Strike Command isComponentOf United States nuclear triad
Minuteman missile program partOf United States nuclear triad
this entity surface form: United States strategic triad
United States Navy submarine USS Brien McMahon (SSBN-642) named in his honor partOf United States nuclear triad
subject surface form: USS Brien McMahon (SSBN-642)
this entity surface form: United States strategic nuclear triad
Minuteman III partOf United States nuclear triad
Minuteman III belongsTo United States nuclear triad
this entity surface form: United States strategic forces
UGM-133A partOf United States nuclear triad
Nuclear posture of NATO supportedBy United States nuclear triad
this entity surface form: United States strategic nuclear forces