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My dad worked on Sprint. That near miss would have been a definite hit since Sprint was armed with an EMP warhead, a small nuclear device with a few kilotons of
by CalChris 9y ago
My dad worked on Sprint. That near miss would have been a definite hit since Sprint was armed with an EMP warhead, a small nuclear device with a few kilotons of yield. Dunno how it would have faired against a MIRV.
It was cancelled after the ABM treaty.
- arethuza 9y agoYou may know this already, but Vernor Vinge did a neat short story where an aged Sprint missile (or something very similar) plays an important role: "The Whirligig of Time".
- tim333 9y agoMight have to bring that kind of stuff back, the way N Korea is going.