To: moonshot925
If they’re safe for use over populated areas, what’s the point?
2 posted on
07/19/2012 7:46:35 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
The test doesn’t make sense to me. A nuke typically goes off at 1500 or so feet for maximum wave propagation.
4 posted on
07/19/2012 7:49:11 PM PDT by
EEGator
To: cripplecreek
If they’re safe for use over populated areas, what’s the point? Air-to-air missile, for shooting down enemy bombers and whatever over US territory. You don't want to destroy the village in order to save it.
5 posted on
07/19/2012 7:49:25 PM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
To: cripplecreek
If they’re safe for use over populated areas, what’s the point? Because we don't want to kill our own people.
The AIR-2 Genie rocket was designed to destroy Soviet bombers over US territory.
To: cripplecreek
The weapon was designed as an air to air nuclear missile, so setting it off at that altitude is certainly realistic, and they would want to be able to use is over CONUS.
8 posted on
07/19/2012 7:52:44 PM PDT by
FreeperinRATcage
(I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do. - R. A. Heinlein)
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