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nine_ktoday at 4:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Historically, it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)

Would be handy today.


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mrguyoramatoday at 5:30 PM

That era of ballistic interceptors all relied on large nuclear warheads to have any effect.

The modern, hard problem is avoiding using a nuke, because detonating a nuclear warhead above your own country is Bad