No.
All current missiles are electrically triggered in a sequence to 'spool up' as they release from the aircraft.
Weapons launched (fired) from submarines include torpedoes, ballistic missiles, or cruise missiles. These are the primary weapons, and a few other options exist.
No. there would have been a war if the nukes were launched
As regards torpedoes or missiles, yes, the submarine has weapons that can be launched underwater.
Yes. Towards the end of World War 2, Germany launched the V2 rockets against London, the first real missiles to have ever been fired.
Well, a number of reasons, but first and foremost is that we have missiles too, you know? And if missiles get launched at us, our missiles get launched back. During the Cold War, the idea behind building arsenals of such missiles was actually notto use them - it's called nuclear deterrence, the idea being that the Soviet Union and United States would refrain from launching nuclear warheads at each other, for the simple reason that they could expect the same in return, in a policy often referred to as the Mutually Assured Destruction policy.
Missles can be launched from aircraft, ships or land. They are referred to as air to air and surface to air missles.
The American Public were scared. How would you feel if there were about 42 nuclear missiles pointed towards the U.S., ready to be launched at any moment right now? I know I'd be scared.
If any of the atomic missiles of today were launched and exploded on land the devastaion of World War 2 would look like a joke. The modern atomic missiles are far more powerful. If enough were launched it would end the world as we know it not only from physical damage but from radiation sickness and pollution.
It was a five-year agreement that froze the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) at 1972 levels. The treaty also included an agreement restricting the development and deployment of antiballistic missile defense systems (ABMs), which were designed to shoot down attacking missiles.
While a rocket is sitting on a launch pad, it is surrounded by a metal frame called a gantry. The gantry breaks away when the rocket is launched. If a missile is launched from underground, it emerges from a missile silo. A missile can also be launched from a portable missile launcher.