Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Nuclear Forces in the Days to Come

... substantially changing throughout the Cold War, both in the Soviet Union and in the United States, with subsequent developments in Russia and China on later stages, and with the U.S. is now reactivating programs to modernize its triad. Alexander Yermakov: The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By The 1970s saw a proliferation of new type of payloads for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), namely called a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV). The development of miniaturized thermonuclear warheads, missile and electronic technology converged into a system that instead of hitting a target with a single warhead ...