New answers tagged nuclear-weapons
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Does launch on warning assume incoming ICBMs carry nuclear warheads?
"...the risk of misclassifying incoming ICBMs..." Also goes the other way around. What if there is indeed a nuclear payload? You don't want to find out when it's too late or your whole ...
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Does launch on warning assume incoming ICBMs carry nuclear warheads?
BTW, in the event that probably motivated this Q, Russia had apparently warned the US that it was about to launch a less-than-usual missile at Ukraine.
Russia warned the US of an incoming ballistic ...
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Does launch on warning assume incoming ICBMs carry nuclear warheads?
It probably is a lot harder to tell what the payload is. Like, radiation and chemical measurements would probably require a short-ranged interaction, so you'd need to get closer—way too close—to the ...
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