Kerry details plans to cut nukes
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Bahh. We should retire the Minuteman force and put super-hardened silos on the MXs so that we mite smite the Red Horde!Vympel wrote:But of course. If Russia can't have it's SS-24s, American can't have it's Peacekeepers.
LOL. Well, this is CNN.(ignore dumbass claims of US 'military experts' who got their expertise from a cereal box calling it a Minuteman III equivalent, unless you're talking "looks kind of like one")
Isn't the Trident II supposedly capable of carrying up to 12 warheads?Sea Skimmer wrote:The C-4 missile has eight 100kt warheads and the D-5 Trident II missile has eight 475kt warheads.
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Acutally it can carry up to 14 warheads in a reduced range configuration. But that hasn't been done.Ma Deuce wrote:
Isn't the Trident II supposedly capable of carrying up to 12 warheads?
That's correct. But tested and deployed are two different things. Very large nuclear bombs are so easy to build and build reliably that it wasn't considered necessary to live fire test them, its small lightweight and low yield nukes that are a bitch to make. Doing so for many of the Us's large yield designs would have been impossible anyway, since the limited Test Ban treaty had already been signed, and digging holes deep enough to contain such large explosions isn't feasible. A 25-megaton warhead for example would need to be buried at over 10,000 feet for the blast to be contained.Uraniun235 wrote:I was under the impression the largest warheads ever tested by the US were ~15 MT.
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