Do they still have missles pointed at US cities?
2006-06-09 07:41:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
You don't "point" a missile at something. It's all computer coded. In a symbolic gesture, both the US and the Soviet Union "pointed" their missiles away. In reality, they just removed the coordinates from the computer's primary target list. It takes about 1/2 second to put it back in, which is part of the launch sequence anyway. It's sort of like moving someone's number from SpeedDial 1 to SpeedDial 2 in your phone. Doesn't make a big difference.
2006-06-09 07:46:16 · answer #1 · answered by kpkilburn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russia has two strategies for use of its nuclear missiles, namely:
Countervalue: SLBMs assured destruction
Counterforce: bombers and ICBMs damage limitation: offensive
In, brief, countervalue is to stike at the largest civilian populations and their infrastructure....while counterforce strikes at the command and control centers and our Minute Man missile silos.
Information about nuclear weapon targeting is closely guarded, our nuclear war plan is called--the "SIOP" or Single Integrated Operational Plan that dictates how those nuclear weapons would actually be used--and it is assumed the Russians have a similar setup.
A review of the 12,500 US targets in 1995 in the SIOP showed much redundency, including one target being hit 69 times (Pushkino radar facility on the outskirts of Moscow). Since then the number of targets have been reduced to 2,500.
It is a fair assumption that the Russian targeting mirrors that of the US.
And if you don't believe that tensions haven't changed since the Cold War ended, look at what happened in 1995 when the Russians activated their football and went into war mode after norway launched a weather satellite. They mistakingly thought it was a NATO launch at Moscow....
2006-06-09 15:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if not, that is what they should do, because US have their missiles facing other countries some are even being fired at innocent people, why should not another country face their missiles at US.
2006-06-09 17:24:56 · answer #3 · answered by muzyne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Russia's nukes are in Korea now.
2006-06-09 14:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by Miss Red 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no even if they still had nukes they have neither the money nor the courage to have them pointed at us
2006-06-10 22:32:00 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋