Great article, but Minuteman ICBMs would not be used to attack North Korea because they'd have to fly over Russia and China to get there.https://twitter.com/danismcnally/status/906168990644539393 …
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Shortest route to Pyongyang from Minot = 9,200 km. Over south pole... it's like ~30,000 km. MMIII range = ~10,000 km.
BTW the easiest way to figure out the south pole range of a given base — use MISSILEMAP, set the launcher on the base (e.g. Minot),
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then change the range to something huge, e.g. 30,000 km. You'll see that the line "doubles around" the Earth that way.
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So you can see that it's around 31,000 km to hit Pyongyang from Minot via South pole route.pic.twitter.com/YIHfDzhr57
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Bingo. Which means the fearmongers' wet dream of a North Korean ICBM using the same route to avoid our early-warning radars is preposterous.
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Also, you can't attack southward w/out actually putting the nukes in orbit, which is illegal under Outer Space Treaty
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But hey, when you're starting WW3 that's only a misdemeanor.
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Yes, but b/c of that legal restriction current Americans/Russian ICBMs are not capable of putting warheads in orbit.
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