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I think the only hope is missile defense systems which could yield these missiles useless. Only then would they provide no value as a deterrent.
by spo81rty 9y ago
I think the only hope is missile defense systems which could yield these missiles useless. Only then would they provide no value as a deterrent.
- tomjen3 9y agoIt is presumably always possible to smuggle some into a capital or other large city and set them of. Makes for an interesting attempt to figure out who put them there too.
- tristanj 9y agoI doubt nuclear defense systems are viable anymore, modern ICBMs travel too fast to intercept. Newsweek covered Russia's latest ICBM developments, and they don't look good. http://www.newsweek.com/us-russia-nuclear-arms-race-over-and-russia-has-won-581704 http://www.newsweek.com/us-russia-nuclear-arms-race-over-and... >The RS-28 ICBM, scheduled to become operational in 2018, assures Russia the ability to annihilate the United States in retaliation for any American first strike, while providing Russia a silo-killing first-strike capability of its own. >The RS-28 is itself a wonder of modern technology, capable of flying in excess of five times the speed of sound, altering its trajectory to confuse anti-missile radars, and delivering 15 independently targetable nuclear warheads (each one 10 times as powerful as the bombs the United States dropped on Japan at the end of World War II) or three “Object 4202” hypersonic warheads, which destroy their targets through kinetic energy (i.e., through impact). >A nuclear warhead-armed RS-28 would take about 30 minutes to reach the United States from a silo in central Russia; its warheads would be capable of destroying an area about the size of Texas. [When] armed with the “Object 4202” hypersonic warheads, each of which is capable of destroying an American missile silo, the time would be cut down to 12 minutes or less.