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Fallout worry is not a thing with modern ICBMs and warheads (not the way you're imagining it). By the time the ICBM enters the terminal phase nothing can (curre
by uwuemu 5y ago
Fallout worry is not a thing with modern ICBMs and warheads (not the way you're imagining it). By the time the ICBM enters the terminal phase nothing can (currently) stop it. It's just a deployed MIRVed/MARVed warhead, ie. a set of a dozen or more hypersonic glides tipped with nukes and you have barely minutes to do anything even if you could. No, the way you stop a modern ICBM is you shoot it down with a nucler tipped anti-ICBM missile mid flight during its mid flight/coast phase, way before it had a chance to deploy. This basically happens in space and no fallout is going to reach the ground.
- midoa 5y agoThere are non-nuclear options for ICBMs. The most interesting is Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De... Basically you launch a missile that intercepts a high altitude missile and launch an object at it in a 'hit-to-kill'. It's been fairly successful in testing according to the link.