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>>rntn+(OP)
Silly clickbait title, but newsworthy all the same. This looks like the first instance of a successful ballistic missile interception in battle and not a test. I feel a chill because you never know what payload a ballistic missile is carrying until it reaches its target. Using them in war is a scary precedent.

>>dougmw+45
I felt that same unease. It's very unlikely Yemeni rebels could get their hands on a nuclear device, and even more unlikely it would be small enough to launch on a rocket. But not impossible.

>>standa+l6
The country that gave the Houthis intermediate range ballistic missiles is also capable of developing pistol-type fission bombs if current estimates of the country's uranium enrichment capabilities are to be believed.

>>0xDEF+u7
Aren't pistol/gun types typically plutonium? I though 235 needed the fancy explosive lenses.

>>buildb+Tj
No, U235 weapons can be the 'cannon' type. That was the type of bomb used on Hiroshima.

>>ridgeg+xl
Oops you are totally right. I got them switched!