Missile

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A missile system is a rocket (booster) plus a weaponized (munitions-carrying) payload[1]

Resources

This looks like a good introduction to missiles.

The fabled 2003 APS ballistic missile defence report, to this day (mid 2022) the most comprehensive public report on all things missile defence (most newer stuff simply references this for any quantitative results, and then waves their hands about and declare this a "novel contribution")

Todo

this page should be a short summary of missiles as it relates to arms control, with a short history (not a full history, that will be on the history page) of Von Braun and the V2, arms control treaties concerning missiles, then what systems are actively deployed/by whom, finally the future of missiles and how they relate to arms control

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