I mean USA can send one from Miami to Iran for example?
2007-09-04 14:17:59 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Purpose of having bases in other places and closer to targets, for sending missiles. That is why it is good for the US to have bases in many other places. Drones, are air crafts that are controlled from a central location, requires no crew. They can take pictures and or drop bombs. Atomic bombs is what was dropped on Japan, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec.7th 1941. The wmd come in different forms, including dirty bombs that can kill the people and leave all building intact.
2007-09-04 14:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by lilly4 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bomb can't go anywhere on it's own. A bomber could fly a bomb to any point on earth and drop it (possibly given some in-flight re-fueling operations), or an ICBM could be targetted to any point desired, and nuclear submarines can launch shorter-range missles from off the cost of a target. Other delivery systems have shorter ranges, of course, right down to tactical nukes in artillery shells.
I don't know if there are ICBMs in Miami, but, if there were, and they were so targetted, they could reach Iran. Given the relative strength of American and Iranian air power, and the naval vessels present in the Persian Gulf, however, nukes would more likely be delivered to Iran via bombers, cruise missles, and the like, than ICBMs, which are still, theoretically, needed as deterents against other nuclear-armed nations.
Not that there's any likelihood of such a thing, of course.
2007-09-04 14:26:40 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The submarines that the US has positioned throughout strategic locations could deliver ICBMs to any location on the globe at any time, or at least in the most minimum time possible.
Not to mention Strategic bombers, stationary launch platforms, hell if they wanted too they could equip a small nuclear warhead on the F-22, F-16, F-18 (must be some I missed)and launch it from there at a close range.
2007-09-04 15:10:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Land based ballistic nuclear missiles are global. The draw back is that the whole world (modernized military world) will know its coming.
Sea based nuclear missiles have a limited 5000 mile (approx more or less) range. The whole modernized military world will still know but have less response time.
Cruise based nuclear missiles are much harder to track and to detect a launch of. And they have about a 2000 mile range (approx more or less)
So the answer is yes.
2007-09-04 15:11:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sub can send a nuclear missle too. It can be underwater off a foreign country's coast twelve mile out.(i.e. Iran,China or North Korea).
2007-09-04 14:24:23 · answer #5 · answered by sparkles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't have atomic bombs. We have thermo-nuclear devices. They have a much bigger boom. Why send one from here? One of our subs could send one from right of the coast and record the 'shroom.
2007-09-04 14:24:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the atomic bomb's that was detonated over nagasaki & hiroshima came from the united states and thats a fair distance a few thousand miles at least
2007-09-04 14:27:04 · answer #7 · answered by bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no American ICBMs around Miami.
Only Russian.
And Iran is much closer from Russia: it takes just 5 minutes to pulverize entire country.
But why? Iranians ain't as bad as los gusanos.
2007-09-04 14:26:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The US can fire an ICBM and hit any place on earth. We can even fire them from subs only a few miles off shore of a country.
2007-09-04 14:41:27 · answer #9 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You aren't from around here are you? The USA is very far reaching.
2007-09-04 14:23:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋