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If a nuclear warhead is intercepted, it generally doesn't detonate. It requires a very carefully-timed and managed sequence of events to make a warhead detonate
by mnw21cam 4y ago
If a nuclear warhead is intercepted, it generally doesn't detonate. It requires a very carefully-timed and managed sequence of events to make a warhead detonate, deliberately so.
- eesmith 4y agoI was responding to Supermancho's comment "nuke right out side the defense range will do enough secondary damage". Assuming the nuke could detect that it was about to be destroyed, and so detonated, would it still be able to do damage? Or, if the max altitude for Iron Dome were known, and the nuke set off just above that range, what damage would it do? The third tier of the missile defense system (destruction during boost, coast, or descent; descent is the third) is meant to avoid Supermancho's scenario.