Originally Posted By: Pete
You know what ... that was educational.
What I learned is that the nuclear threat to our large cities is much LESS than I expected. Much less.




Actually, it would be much greater now that all ICBMs have MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle). The old ICBM's (Titan, etc.) had a single very large warhead so they had to be powerful. The now out of service MX Peacekeeper had 13 MIRVs! I believe one of the Start treaties has now limited the allowable number of MIRV's to 10 but I'm not sure. So in theory, one modern ICBM could do tremendous damage on a large city.