To: Poohbah
Pershing 1A carried the W-50, and didn't have the range to reach the Moscow relocation arc. The B61-11 didn't enter service until the 1990s. Pershing II carried a W-85 warhead in a terminally-guided maneuvering reentry vehicle (MaRV) and was aimed at the Moscow target set, but didn't field until the mid-1980s. Just so. But Moscow wasn't the only Warsaw Pact headquarters capital that was targeted. And decapitation of those leaders necessary to give an order to wind things down was not considered to be the smartest first move to be made, assuming less than an all-out throw the kitchen sink at 'em exchange.
-archy-/-
67 posted on
12/12/2003 1:13:12 PM PST by
archy
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To: archy
But Moscow wasn't the only Warsaw Pact headquarters capital that was targeted.But it was the only one that counted--the WP armies were completely subordinate to Moscow in a shooting war, and their cee-cubed didn't go through their national capitols.
68 posted on
12/12/2003 1:20:58 PM PST by
Poohbah
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