What if?…🎈Across the Great Plains, from northern Colorado and throughout Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana, are the missile fields of the United States nuclear program. Each of the three Strategic Missile Wings at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
(plainshumanities.unl.edu)
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The theory is that they are really dry runs for an atomic EMP attack.
No way a balloon is holding the weight of an atomic weapon
How heavy do you think an atomic weapon has to be? The W82-1 device (designed to fit into a 155mm artillery shell) weighed 95 pounds for a yield under 2 kilotons. Don't go rushing off making statements without checking the numbers.
I wouldn't bet on that being true. Forty years ago we were carrying them in UH-1 helicopters and it only took four of us to lift them in and out.
Us? Are you glowing anywhere at night that you notice? Shit that is way close!
As the adequately named person below stated, warheads aren't actually all that heavy relatively speaking. The technology at this stage of miniaturization is likely smaller than even normal people know.
Most of a rocket is its fuel, center of mass corrections, guidance systems, etc.
Most nuclear weapons are likely fairly small and light (relatively) at this point.