LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The lines shown are the re-entry vehicles -- one Peacekeeper can hold up to 10 nuclear warheads, each independently targeted. Were the warheads armed with a nuclear payload, each would carry with it the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-sized weapons. (Traveling at 4000 mph when they hit.)
Original: http://www.smdc.army.mil/SMDCPhoto_Gallery/Missiles/Missiles.html
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