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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? by blattimwind on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:00PM (#15847970)
Well detonating nuclear warheads (literally) near some important asset of yours is probably always some kind of last ditch effort.
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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? by bigiain on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:54PM (#15848337)
I did a tour of the Nike missile site in the Marin Headlands / Golden Gate Park once.

They were very careful to "neither confirm nor deny" whether the site ever had nuclear payloads, but they _did_ make a point to tell everyone that the beautiful mechanical targeting computers had Sacramento programmed in as a target, "just in case"...

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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? by Symmetry on Monday December 04, 2017 @07:43PM (#15848895)
Not necessarily, it would be going off pretty high. Much higher than in this video with people directly underneath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc

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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? by Bartweiss on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:55PM (#15848343)
Yeah, probably not the sort of thing you go and do to stop a 5-kiloton conventional warhead.
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