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From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Conventional warheads on ICBMs?
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Date: 1 Oct 90 02:20:48 GMT
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From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott)
Didn't see this appear in the group last time I posted it
(xrn crashed just as I was posting, must be the reason), so here
it is again: prompted by the events in the middle east and the
time it's taking to get troops and materiel over there, I found
myself wondering whether ICBMs could be rearmed with conventional
warheads and used against strategic targets in Iraq?  After all,
it's an alternative to destroying the launchers (which happens
when arms reduction treaties are signed), there's no 'N'-word
stigma, and they are accurate enough by now to take out a
chem factory, right?  If we'd been attacked in Saudi Arabia in
the early days after the invasion of Kuwait, could we have
read off lat/long of targets from satellite recon and taken
them out?

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