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First there was the ‘I really don’t care’ jacket. Now there are her sinister decorations. What is she trying to convey?There is something exquisite about Melania Trump, and I am not talking about her appearance or what she (probably) smells like. She doesn’t defy interpretation so much as beguile it; you want to strip away the layers, but you know you do so at your peril; the layers might be all there is. Mystery piles on mystery: who owns a jacket sporting the words “I really don’t care”, like the one she wore to a detention centre for child migrants?...

Need FReeper Help. Without Violating Security, How Far Apart Can MIRVs From Same ICBM Be Targetted? How big an area can MIRVed warheads from a single ICBM/IRBM be programmed to cover, Are we talking 10 nuc warheads covering one large city? Or could it be multiple areas such as one missile launch sending 3 warheads to Moscow, 3 to Kiev, 3 to Leningrad, etc. or on the other side, 3 to NYC, 3 to DC and 1 to Boston and 3 to Chicago? I realize range dispersion would probably be larger than cross-track dispersion, but need a rough answer. It's...

Jane's Defence Weekly August 28, 2002 Russia To Retain MIRVs Beyond START II Deadline By Nikolai Novichkov, JDW Correspondent, Moscow Russia will not destroy its arsenal of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in the timeline stipulated under the provisions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II), but will retain its MIRV capability until 2016, according to Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov. Following the signing of the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty by US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 28 May, Russia announced it would withdraw from the provisions of START...