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The ICBM

26 minutes, 40 seconds to Armageddon Ballistic missile trajectory in three phases of flight: Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal (US Missile Defense Agency)

Back in 1960, when the intercontinental ballistic missile had just been invented, the Pentagon’s chief scientist, a man named Herb York, wanted to know precisely how many

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