Evaluated screen

Nuclear Missile Launchers and Launch Infrastructure

Identifies companies that are involved in the development, production, integration, construction, or material support of launch systems or launch infrastructure specifically designed or materially modified for nuclear missile systems.

Type
Evaluated
Version
2026.08.21.2
Published
Aug 21, 2026
Inclusions
5
Exclusions
5
How to read this definition

Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.

Can establish this activity

Included when supported

Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.

5 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Nuclear Missile Launcher Manufacturers

    Defined as: Companies that design, produce, assemble, or integrate launchers specifically for nuclear-capable missiles, including silo launchers, mobile launchers, submarine launch systems, or aircraft launch interfaces.

  2. 02Criterion

    ICBM Silo and Missile-Field Infrastructure Contractors

    Defined as: Companies that construct, modernize, or materially support silos, launch-control centres, missile fields, or hardened infrastructure specifically for nuclear missile systems.

  3. 03Criterion

    Submarine Missile Launch System Providers

    Defined as: Companies that design, produce, integrate, or materially support missile tubes, launch canisters, hatches, gas-management systems, or related systems for submarine-launched nuclear missiles.

  4. 04Criterion

    Mobile Nuclear Missile Launcher and Transporter Producers

    Defined as: Companies that produce or integrate transporter-erector-launchers, mobile launch vehicles, or purpose-built deployment systems for nuclear-capable ballistic or cruise missiles.

  5. 05Criterion

    Nuclear Missile Handling and Loading Systems

    Defined as: Companies that provide missile handling, loading, erection, launch preparation, or launch-support equipment specifically for nuclear-capable missile systems.

Does not establish this activity on its own

Excluded on this basis alone

These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.

5 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Generic Construction or Civil Works Providers

    Defined as: Companies providing ordinary construction, civil engineering, or infrastructure services without a documented nuclear-missile launcher or launch-infrastructure scope.

  2. 02Criterion

    Conventional Missile Launcher Producers Only

    Defined as: Companies that produce launchers or launch infrastructure solely for missiles not designed, designated, certified, or materially modified for nuclear payloads.

  3. 03Criterion

    Civilian Space Launch Systems

    Defined as: Companies involved only in civilian, commercial, or scientific space-launch infrastructure without nuclear-weapons delivery application.

  4. 04Criterion

    Generic Logistics Providers Without Launcher Control

    Defined as: Companies transporting materials or equipment without responsibility for the launcher, launch-control system, or launch-infrastructure deliverable.

  5. 05Criterion

    Disarmament, Decommissioning, or Demolition-Only Work

    Defined as: Companies working only on verified dismantlement, conversion, remediation, or destruction of former nuclear missile launch infrastructure.

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Taxonomy version 2026.08.21.2, published Aug 21, 2026. Material changes receive a new immutable release so earlier evaluations remain tied to the definitions and criteria used.

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