Yes, They nearly did. In the 1980s, the U.S. developed the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison program: a fleet of heavily armored trains capable of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles from anywhere ...

A couple of words about the new weapon – it has a total weight of 100 tons, and carries a payload of 10 tons, which means it can be outfitted with 15 MIRV ... served as a peacekeeper for the ...

First, the Peacekeeper was not designed to be used primarily against Soviet missile silos, although the missile would be quite effective in destroying these assets in retaliation after a pre ...

Testing of the Peacekeeper reentry vehicles ... It seems likely that the decision to MIRV will support, rather than deter, U.S. pursuit of missile defense systems, which in turn may push China ...