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It's not crazy. It's pretty horrifyingly logical. Why have one 100Mt nuke, when you can have a hundred 1Mt nukes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetab...



Here are a couple videos of MIRV re-entry tests - basically what it'd look like before having a really bad day. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDTnszCQC0 http://theaviationist.com/2013/12/27/russia-icbm-test-kura/


Indeed. I can confirm that after having played Missle Command on the Atari 800 in 1983!




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