ICBM's+-+Shaffer

ICBM'S


 * ICBM stands for **intercontinental ballistic missile**


 * Modern ICBMs typically carry //MIRVs// each of which carries a separate nuclear warhead, allowing a single missile to hit multiple targets.


 * 'Nuclear ICBM' was seen as a redundant term. Strategic planning avoided the concept of a conventionally tipped ICBM, mainly because any ICBM launch threatens many countries and they are expected to react under a worst-case assumption that it is a nuclear attack. This threat of ICBMs to deliver such a lethal blow so rapidly to targets across the globe has resulted in the interesting fact that there has never been any end-to-end test of a nuclear-armed ICBM