Just a quick post today. Saw this over on digg and thought it was a gorgeous piece of photography. It's also a pretty much what the end of the world would look like. Those are 8 independent nuclear warheads striking the ocean at over 4000 miles per hour. Horrifying and beautiful gallery of similar pics here. Explanation below.LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The lines shown are the re-entry vehicles -- one Peacekeeper can hold up to 10 nuclear warheads, each independently targeted. Were the warheads armed with a nuclear payload, each would carry with it the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-sized weapons.
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