> I don't see why damaging the delivery vehicle should affect the bomb, unless the vehicle explodes catastrophically, destroying the bomb. You no longer have a

> I don't see why damaging the delivery vehicle should affect the bomb, unless the vehicle explodes catastrophically, destroying the bomb. You no longer have a reentry vehicle, you now have a man-made meteorite burning up in the atmosphere. I can sleep peacefully at night knowing that North Korea doesn't have a chance in hell of nuking Seattle because I have some understanding of how stupidly hard it is to keep a reentry vehicle from turning into a meteorite. The flip side though is how stupidly hard it is to intercept something going that fast.