have you ever considered the possibiliy USA may develop a stealth ICBM?

Question

who could ever retaliate to a nuclear attack that cannot be seen coming?
does that scare you?

Answer 1

If you are under the ocean, like Captain Nemo, It would not matter a monkeys bollack.

Answer 2

Even Britain has stealth ICBMs
They live in Trident submarines in the Holy Loch, the MOD claim they roam the oceans blue but thy actually hide under the floating dock, in Holy Loch off the Clyde near Dunoon, Scotland, the submarines are alledgedly nuclear but they just get a battery charge at the dockside and then the diver connects up an umbilical to provide air and electricity and cable tv to the highly trained and official secrets act signing crews. The Royal Navy correctly claims the Russians never managed to track a Polaris or Trident missile carrying Submarine, which is dead right because even Ivan aint stupid enough to try and navigate a 500 foot long submarine up the Clyde is he?

Anyway apart from the initial acceleration from the submarine the ICBM is virtually invulnerable to countermeasures by virtue of its speed, so the value of a stealthy version is extremely doubtful.

Answer 3

I'm sure our military, as well as other have developed and produced weapons to this nature, and are ready at any point to use them.

However, the key to not being crazy (like N. Korea), is not using them, or threatening to use them on anyone.
We all see the effects of the Atom bomb on Japan. We see the birth defects, and deformation. Most nations would agree, that this is more of a haunting torture, than a military tactic.

As far as ICBM, I sure hope that we never reach that point.
Most countries have invested their militaries in small arms and urban warfare. Sometime during the 90's everyone decided "push-button", "bomb-dropping" wars were coming to an end. North Korea seems to want to change the world perspective, by force.

God help us all, if any nation decides ever again, that the total eradication of thousands of innocents at a time, is a means of military protection or defense. As the human race evolves, you would assume we would learn from mistakes. History may end up repeating itself.

Answer 4

ICBMs travel fast enough where it's pretty much futile to stop it otherwise. There's no need to make a stealth ICBM. It's a waste of stealth materials.

No star wars idea, short of placing an Anti-Ballistic missile battery right next to the silo can stop an ICBM.

Answer 5

They have the stealth X43 plane with the ability to carry nuclear bombs. On the same subject - the video link somone put in last night supposedly of a battlefield nuclear weapon imploding in Iraq - that wasn't nuclear. It would have killed the camera man taking the picture. It was obviously a missile or something hitting a gasoline dump or something similar.

Answer 6

Who needs a stealth ICBM, just get a charter cargo plane, put a nuke on it then detonate it when it lands/flying over the city, nobody know who or which plane it was as it takes out the aircraft tower too.

Answer 7

Even if you made one, how are you going to mask the explosion?
The only point I would see to a Stealth ICBM would be if other countries had their own 'Star Wars' protection.

Answer 8

Why?
Launching them from a submarine prevents the "reciever" from knowing who fired it anyway. At the moment the only countries with any form of decent early warning system are the current nuclear powers anyway.

Answer 9

Not really. Even if it was a realistic prospect, you cannot totally rule out a retaliatory attack, as you cant be 100% sure of taking out all missile launching sites. And how would it be effective against missiles launched from subs?
An impractical weapon idea, I think.

Answer 10

They invented them during the cold war.. All you have to do is put a icbm up into orbit on a satelite..