File:Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg

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current09:34, 3 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 09:34, 3 January 20173,000 × 2,272 (761 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<p>LGM-118A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118A_Peacekeeper" class="extiw" title="en:LGM-118A Peacekeeper">Peacekeeper missile</a> system being tested at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwajalein" class="extiw" title="en:Kwajalein">Kwajalein Atoll</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands" class="extiw" title="en:Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>. </p> <p>This is a long exposure photo showing the paths of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MIRV" title="MIRV"> multiple re-entry vehicles</a> deployed by the missile. One Peacekeeper can hold up to 10 nuclear warheads, each independently targeted. Were the warheads armed with a nuclear <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload" class="extiw" title="en:Payload">payload</a>, each would carry with it the explosive power of twenty-five <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" class="extiw" title="en:Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">Hiroshima</a>-sized weapons which is equivalent to around 400 kilotons of TNT. </p>
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