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India's ICBM Will Carry Multiple Nuclear Warheads

Posted by samzenpus on from the multiple-heads-are-better-than-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "India is equipping its longest range nuclear-capable missile, the Agni-V, with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs), The Diplomat reports. A MIRVed Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) carries multiple nuclear warheads on a single missile, which it dispenses towards numerous or a single target after the final stage of the ICBM boosts off. MIRVed missiles destabilized the Cold War nuclear balance and are likely to do so again: 'Because they give nations greater confidence in being able to destroy an adversary's hardened missile silo sites in a first strike by launching multiple, lower yield warheads at the sites.'"

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  1. Re:So, by that logic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, you're saying it's good that he added another important piece, so that people will have two parts of the truth, rather than one.

  2. Re:So why can't Iran have Nukes? by dadelbunts · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except india is a fucking shithole. They have a ridiculous caste system which is still in place to this day. Kind of ruins the whole democracy thing when a large section of your population is allowed to be treated like utter shit, and made to live in garbage filled shantytowns. There are whole towns where EVERY FEMALE IN THE TOWN IS A PROSTITUTE.