New warheads and new missiles were designed, manufactured, and deployed after minuteman. You may work on old ALCMs but ACMs are deployed with new warheads, and there are delivery systems much more survivable and effective than the B-52. We deploy older, less capable systems to maintain detente...
Start II did not outlaw MIRVs on SLBMs.
According to OSI, the USA only deploys MIRVs on SLBMs.
Can you cite a source that states the SERV Minuteman rockets are currently loaded with more than one RV? SORT may not restrict MIRV installation but the restrictions on launchers alters the...
ICBM's are deployed with large fusion warheads because treaties prevent installation of MIRV packages onto them, so they are equipped with one smaller warhead with PENAIDS or one large warhead with chaff or something simpler. SLBM's are permitted to deploy MIRV packages and presumably do so, to...
The open source description of the Teller-Ulam design is a very general description of a primary and secondary. I do not agree that the supposed arrangement of the W88 belongs to that design. The W88 is believed to possesses a reversed arrangement and be constructed with a prolate primary. This...
Research competitive quickdraw speeds. The competitions determine and account for reaction time during shooting, and have a lot of data regarding it. I think an untrained individual in most situations comes in under 1/4 second, but this can get a little quicker with training.
Large amounts of very precise test data and a large and expensive body of research are required to produce reliable fusion weapons. While the development of genuinely novel nuclear weapons has presumably stalled since the 1980's, saying the technology has not advanced in 40 years is just false...