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honestly I don't think the nukes are as huge deterrent as they once were. I just don't believe that in the last 20 years, noone invented anything that can take
by vaksel 17y ago
honestly I don't think the nukes are as huge deterrent as they once were.
I just don't believe that in the last 20 years, noone invented anything that can take out a nuke in mid-flight, especially with all the trillions that went into the DoD in those years.
I mean just look at how far wireless technology has moved in the past 20 years. At this point they can probably hack a nuke out of the sky over a wifi connection.
- philwelch 17y agoWe might be able to take out a couple of nukes. An entire barrage from a nuclear superpower will get through. Also, ballistic missiles have no means of communication with the outside world. No guidance, even. They're "ballistic"--you put them up and physics determines where they come down.
- berntb 17y ago>Also, ballistic missiles have no means of communication with the outside world I thought there were old research about objects during reentry communicating through the plasma? (I think I saw articles from the 1990s(?) on putting metal into the plasma and making it transparent at some wavelengths?) You get Google hits for variants of: communicating through reentry plasma How trustworthy Scientific American is these days is debatable, but this was a recent article. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=piercing-the-plasma&print=true http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=piercing-th... (This discussion wasn't really relevant to your point, of course...) Disclaimer: This is a subject far from anything where I might really know anything, so I might be barking up the wrong tree.