[Tonytitan]

This is slight-of-hand. The Air Force desperately want to offload the ICBM deterrent onto the Navy. They want to spend all their dollars on space weapons. Space-based satellite defense. Space-based kinetic weapons whose launch/release is undetectable.

My read is that some rocket manufacturer is trying to drum up business for his company. Besides, nukes are so 20th century.

[Laser_Ray]

They’re also of dubious use against stateless terrorists who use suicide runs as their FIRST tactic and think they go to a heaven full of f*ck toys if they die in battle. MAD doesn’t work that well against a horde of illiterate savages who think they win if one of them survives on the whole planet and all of you die.