Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: johnhall@microsoft.UUCP (John HALL) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Cost Reduction and the Nuclear Deterence Message-ID: <14313@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 25 Feb 90 06:12:37 GMT References: <13891@cbnews.ATT.COM> <14061@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 13 Approved: military@att.att.com From: johnhall@microsoft.UUCP (John HALL) >From: Randy Appleton >Well, anyhow, it would seem that to "destroy" the Soviet Union would take >about 600 EMT delivered on target (give or take some reasonable amount). >So why have such a large strategic force structure? 13,000 warheads at about >.4 EMT each is too many! I have heard, on the other hand that the military has identified over 40,000 targets in the USSR and warsaw pact. It doesn't have nearly enough warheads to take all of them out.