re: #65 Obdicut

Well son of a gun.

You’d know better than I— are satellite launched BMs considered viable options— aside from the diplomatic problems, that is?

It would be easy technically, but there are some serious command and control and vulnerability issues. Schemes for this in the nuke-mad fifties generally proposed basing them on a manned station for that reason. They are categorically forbidden by the Outer Space Treaty of 1963, and several other subsequent agreements.