missile
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The market entirely shrugged off the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Centcom then released a statement on 31 March denying it was a US missile, instead saying that footage of the attack was consistent with an Iranian Hoveyzeh cruise missile.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates shut down a gas field after a missile interception reportedly rained debris on it and started a fire, the Associated Press reported.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Investors have caught on to the trends of higher defense spending and missile stockpiling.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
He had to have been thinking a bomb was about to drop, that Cade Hernandez was about to deploy a heat-seeking missile.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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