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| | galosh :: , alosh, , galosh information |
 | | my guess would be that galosh used the same sort of warhead as spartan, and we're seeing lossy translation - "enhanced x-ray radiation" becomes just "enhanced radiation", and "enhanced radiation" used to be the jargon or euphemism for "neutron bomb" in closely related circles. |
 | | and they were rating the galosh as superior to the safeguard system (we now know that the air force was massively overrating the galosh system, but it still means that the us missile deterrent would have penetrated the safeguard system, using 1969 missiles). |
 | | by this i mean that whilst chevaline was designed to defeat galosh, the government(s) of the day might have considered that if they had to nuke someone it wasn't necessarily going to be the ussr (and even if the ussr was the target, maybe somewhere other than moscow?)... |
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