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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re:Land/Sea based ICBMs/Cruise missiles
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Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 18:58:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  3 18:58:38 1984
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> at the present time cruise missiles carry smaller warheads than ICBMs, but
> only because they are designed with a different purpose.  So the ALCM
> or the Tomahawk can only carry a 5KT(Not sure if that's true-but it's
> good enough for the sake of argument) warhead, while a Minuteman III
> carries 3 1.5MT warheads.  Picture, if you will, a cruise missile the
> size of an F-14, and tell me that it will have a smaller warhead.

You don't even need to go that far.  Remember that a lousy little
13-kiloton bomb demolished Hiroshima.  When the Oppenheimer committee
recommended against US development of the hydrogen bomb, one of their
reasons was that there was no real need for it:  fission bombs were
powerful enough to meet all valid military requirements.
-- 
				Henry (why no net.arms-d??) Spencer
				U of Toronto Zoology
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