rk- able a world in which science and technology—born as quantum mechan- ics and grown to be nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs; or perhaps just a rental truck containing an amateur's fully functional fission bomb)—make this single stroke distressingly possible. The failure

e U.S. (much less so against, say, the Taliban or Hamas). EMP weapons fired from lower-altitude platforms or via land-based missile systems (e.g., ICBMs) are vulnerable to intercepts or preemptive strikes. Satellite-mounted EMP weapons, on the other hand, would be beyond the reach of most countries,

rce any armored division or army corps can ever achieve. Bombers allow the president to signal adversaries in a way submarines and missiles cannot. ICBMs increase the threshold for launching an attack against the United States by forcing an adversary to attack the homeland should they seek to destroy

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