Arizona trip

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu Apr 12 16:20:21 2001

> Titans are the big ICBM's right?

Big enough that they evolved into the biggest (unmanned) launch vehicle
that the US now has.

> Have they been replaced with something
> else, or do we not have any ICBM's anymore? I know Subs (Boomers) have
> a lot of our missles now.

Last time I checked US still had Minuteman III (1500 warheads on 500 to
750 missiles), MX (950 warheads on a few hundred missiles). I had thought
we had gone to a 1 warhead/missile policy since then, though.

If that's not enough to make you radiate, the sub fleet carries about
3300 warheads (again, last time I checked) on a hundred or so Trident 1 and 2
missiles. The bomber force has 1500 low yield and a thousand or so
megaton sized weapons, and there are 1200 or so nuclear tipped cruise
missiles out there, too.

Sleep well,

Eric
Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 16:20:21 BST