CSPAN3 Postwar Society And The Cold War June 22, 2024
Reentry vehicle. Everybody knows what it is, right . Lets look at it. Thats the bus. Thats on top of the rocket. Thats on top of the missile. Stage one, stage two, stage three. And now whats left is that. And each one of those groovy looking machines there is a one Megaton Nuclear warhead. There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven warheads on the top of that particular missile. Thats an american missile. A mirv now allows you to put anywhere from three to as many as 12 warheads on the tip of a single missile. In the nose cone, and to drive that bus over target, and either send them out...