{"id":8000,"date":"2013-02-10T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8000"},"modified":"2013-02-10T01:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T06:31:03","slug":"a-subway-system-for-nuclear-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/a-subway-system-for-nuclear-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Subway System For Nuclear Missiles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021013_0610_ASubwaySyst1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The American military is looking at how its land-based nuclear missile system will work post-2025. Sharon Weinberger described the ideas being discussed so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nuclear weapons are all about deterring the enemy from daring to hit you in the first place, and so it&#8217;s important to convince the enemy that even if they manage to strike the country, the United States can still launch an annihilating counter-attack.<\/li>\n<li>The current system does this by spreading nuclear missile silos across a vast expanse of land.<\/li>\n<li>However this system is expensive and requires the maintenance of lots of missile silos dispersed across wide ranges.<\/li>\n<li>An alternate idea would have a nuclear &#8216;subway&#8217; that would randomly transport nuclear weapons through various underground tunnels. The enemy would thus never know precisely where the missiles are.<\/li>\n<li>Another idea would have the missiles transported on specialized vehicles that would venture on public roads or even into off-road areas to prevent the weapons from becoming a static target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about other ideas, as well as the idea that the military is most likely to pursue over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20130201-roll-forward-the-doomsday-train\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20130201-roll-forward-the-doomsday-train\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American military is looking at how its land-based nuclear missile system will work post-2025. Sharon Weinberger described the ideas being discussed so far: Nuclear weapons are all about deterring the enemy from daring to hit you in the first place, and so it&#8217;s important to convince the enemy that even if they manage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021013_0610_ASubwaySyst1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8002,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions\/8002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}