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The Future of the US Nuclear Deterrent
From today's Washington Post, we learn that:
The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, defense officials said.
This is the future of strategic weapons; something that combines the speed of an ICBM with the recallability of the manned bomber, and the capability of manuevering, unlike ballistic missiles; which even if equipped with MIRVs have a limited manuvering footprint.
From today's Washington Post, we learn that:
The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, defense officials said.
This is the future of strategic weapons; something that combines the speed of an ICBM with the recallability of the manned bomber, and the capability of manuevering, unlike ballistic missiles; which even if equipped with MIRVs have a limited manuvering footprint.
posted by MKSheppard at 4:28 AM
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