High Speed Weapons Capable of Striking Globally Can Replace US Nukes

The US in coming years could deploy a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from America in less than an hour and with such accuracy and force that they will greatly bring down country’s reliance on its nuclear arsenal, said media reports.

According to reports, the new weapon, which is called Prompt Global Strike, is designed to carry out tasks like picking off Osama bin Laden in a cave, if the right one could be found; taking out a North Korean missile while it is being rolled to the launch pad; or destroying an Iranian nuclear site, all without crossing the nuclear threshold.

The weapon, in theory, will fling a conventional warhead of enormous weight at high speed and with pinpoint accuracy, generating the localised destructive power of a nuclear warhead, said reports.

It may be mentioned that the idea is not new, former US President George W Bush and his staff promoted the technology, imagining that this new generation of conventional weapons would replace nuclear warheads on submarines.

(Based on internet reports)