U.S. Analyst Warns Russian ICBM With MIRVs Could Devastate America
The National Interest notes Russia’s MIRV-equipped ICBM can erase entire regions, bypass missile defense, and challenge systems like S-500 and THAAD.
Harrison Kass, a columnist for the American magazine The National Interest, argued that Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) has the potential to wipe out the United States. He stressed that such a weapon is capable of erasing entire regions from the map and described it as the most destructive system in existence today.
Kass explained that the MIRV design reflects Cold War logic — the idea that security can be achieved by deploying overwhelming force, making retaliation mathematically inevitable.
He noted that Russian ICBMs with MIRVs can bypass missile defense systems by delivering nuclear warheads to multiple targets at once. This, he said, complicates efforts at arms control.
According to Kass, these missiles can also be equipped with decoy warheads, making interception extremely difficult even for advanced systems such as the S-500 and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).