Posted by Scott in SF on August 30, 2014 at 12:28:31 from (107.214.146.179):
In Reply to: Re: Missile Silos posted by buickanddeere on August 30, 2014 at 08:20:03:
I am sure that they could have. But you have to wonder, I think each one of those warheads yielded something like 170 kilotons of tnt, more than 10 times the bombs that serviced targets in Japan. What needs to get hit twice ? What I knew about it I learned after the I was in the army when I was going to UND in Grand Forks. Lots of guys from the AFB were going to college, and as there was no Airforce ROTC they were going to Army ROTC learning to fly helecoptors. Long time ago so my memory is iffy, and the Air Force guys didn't talk about it much, but I think if they wanted to hit something twice, or actually make sure they got it, they would use wareheads from different missles, incase something went wrong with one. Although I pretend no expertise in nuke warefare (or any other kind for that matter) I would have to wonder if a silo or command center was attacked by a nuke would it work ? Would the communication cables work, would the rocked in the silo get knocked off its foundation or whatever it is called. And although they never really told me, I think the Mutually Assured Distruction plan indicated they were going to destroy cities. They did tell me though, they could shoot those things over the north pole, and the CEP (circular error probable)was 0.5 miles. Perhaps there is some old SAC guy could offer up more details.
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