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Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:03:42 GMT
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Once upon a time, Jeff Stembel <Dragonelf1@aol.com> wrote:

Aren't missile silos underground to protect them from attack?  So an
ICBM might not even do much damage to the underground compound, right?

My understanding (consider me the opposite of an expert) is that the
silos require local human initiation of launches.  So an attack
doesn't have to destroy the missile in the silo, it just has to cook
the operators in the bunker.

Seems like if the ICBM struck 'on target', it would have no problem
cooking the inhabitants.

Steve



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Steve Bliss wrote in message <363e0fa2.9016510@lu...et.com>... (...) Local is a very relative term. Local can be a hundred miles away, in terms of what the Air Force was capable of doing. Actually, they had a lot of redundant systems, and could (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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Aren't missile silos underground to protect them from attack? So an ICBM might not even do much damage to the underground compound, right? Jeff (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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