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Peacekeeper-missile-testing

LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

 

This is a time-lapse photo showing the paths of the multiple re-entry vehicles deployed by the missle. 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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Uploaded on December 10, 2007
Taken on December 10, 2007