intercontinental

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Space support ships are designed to track rocket launches, satellites and intercontinental missile activity.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

China's capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

Space, Mr. Musk pointed out, had barely improved since Apollo, while every other technology—from computing and the internet to intercontinental flight—had been transformed by newcomers and open competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Of the 48 teams participating, the three hosts qualified automatically while 43 places were earned via direct qualification from the confederations and two spots were determined by intercontinental play-offs.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Let us now summarize how variations in these three factors—time of onset of food production, barriers to diffusion, and human population size—led straightforwardly to the observed intercontinental differences in the development of technology.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond