[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

It was before ICMBMs were reliable. The Russians had "Bear" bombers and we were scared to death of them! Note that only a year or two before we had toasted two Japanese cities with bomber-delivered "devices." That was the current "state of the art!"

Once everyone had ICBMs, everything went to inertial navigation and as long as you did not move the target city while the nuke was en-route, the device would be delivered.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Peterson" <mattmorse2496 at yahoo.com>

I wasn't in radio when CONELRAD was a valid and active process, but it always seemed to me that, even in the days of small thermonuke weapons, an incoming missile could just latch on to *one* of the 640s or 1240s before the frequency rotated locations, say to itself "close enough!", and still manage to toast everything in a five-mile radius. Even a confused missile will faw down and go boom.