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What Is a “MIRV,” and Why Could It Doom America?

The MIRV represents the culmination of a certain Cold War logic: the notion that security can be found in fielding such an overwhelming force that retaliation becomes mathematically inevitable. The ...
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Does Iran have military technology like US, Russia? What is MIRV technology that has left Israel scared?

The Israeli army has claimed that it has recovered several Iranian missiles that did not explode. One of these was loaded with a cluster bomb warhead and had been fired from central Iran. Thankfully, ...
CNN

Russia’s use of a nuclear-capable missile is a clear departure from Cold War doctrine of deterrence

Russia’s use of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday is the latest escalation in the Ukraine war. It also marks a decisive, and potentially dangerous moment in Moscow’s conflict with the ...
The Diplomat

India’s Space Ambitions Buttress MIRV Efforts

On March 11, 2024, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) tested the country’s maiden MIRV (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle) missile using its Agni-V ...
Reuters

Enter ‘Oreshnik’

Working backwards from the impacts in Dnipro: the six warheads fell to earth after they were dropped at separate targets by a component of the missile called the Multiple Independently-targetable ...
CNN

India joins select group of nations able to fire multiple warheads on a single ICBM

India said Monday it had joined the world’s top nuclear powers by mastering the ability to put multiple warheads atop a single intercontinental ballistic missile. The successful test of multiple ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

What India’s MIRV test adds to the ‘strategic trilemma’ in South Asia

On March 11, India successfully tested a new multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) technology on its Agni-V medium- to intercontinental-range ballistic missiles, sparking concerns ...