Do you have a figure for how much the US alone has spent on developing and deploying nuclear weapons over the last 50 years? Nuclear weapons have to be tested and upgraded, kept up with the opponent. These are metal rods with a guidance system on them. A for just launching one on a Minuteman: If Minuteman missiles could do the same damage without the nukes, don't you think they would have done that? The terminal velocity of the Minuteman is going to be under orbital velocity so it wouldn't have the striking power even if we did it.

The things I was referring to being a few hundred thousand dollars are guided missiles and their ilk which don't have nearly the destructive power of nuclear weapons or what these things would. - Colt

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