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Basicaly from what i understand about ICBM's is that in a First strike situation ,it would take 30 minuets for the missles to travel from American Silos in the Midwest to Russian silos in the Urals, so calculate the distance and devide it by the time involved to travel the distance and you'll come up with the speed.BTW the same formulation works the same for a Soviet first strike.They said in the Cold war in the 1980's that the response for a pre-emptive strike would leave a only a few minuets difference in the launchung of our ICBM's before a Soviet pre-emptive strike detonated.Cheak out MAD [mutual assured distruction.]and no first use policy as well as ""escalation"".

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