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2023-01-12 Science & Technology

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Posted by DarthVader 2023-01-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ...There's several excellent websites out there that all end up making the same point: we had literal rings of steel surrounding this country and Canada. Statistically some bombers were going to make it through, but between the Nikes and the interceptors, being a Russian bomber crew member was suicidal at best.

And I'm not able to watch the video right now, but I'll be willing to bet it doesn't address a major bee in McNamara's bonnet: the last generations of missiles were to a surprising extent dual capable.

They could kill bombers AND incoming warheads. (More of a happy accident than by design, but we were getting skin-to-skin hits with Nike-Zeus and Nike -Hercules; knocking down warheads would have been comparatively simple. The later Sprint and Spartan missiles were designed from the start to kill ICBMs and warheads, and they worked.)

No way in Hell Robert S. McNamara was going to allow us to defend ourselves.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-01-12 06:58|| 2023-01-12 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Not that the average city councilor, let alone the citizens, in Chicago knew that nuke warheads were loaded on those suckers along the Lake Shore Battery.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-12 07:19|| 2023-01-12 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 At the rate things are going, Musk will have a private sector solution that the US gummint will have to lease.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-12 07:39|| 2023-01-12 07:39|| Front Page Top

Land located at the former Arlington Heights, IL site on Central & Wilke roads was sold to real estate and golf course developers. The command bunker is now a members only Polish White Eagles bingo and bowling club.

All's well that ends well.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-12 07:48|| 2023-01-12 07:48|| Front Page Top

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