Genie out of the bottle and in the air.

[akaihyo]

Was visiting wikipedia, as one is wont to do, and found this article about the AIR-2 Genie, an air-to-air missile packing a 1.5 kiloton nuclear warhead. Designed to "break up" massed formations of Soviet bombers back in the early days of the Cold War. Fascinating

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[forvrin.livejournal.com]

Those would be extremely useful in Space based Point Defense.