{"id":87411,"date":"2019-02-05T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-air-forces-rods-from-god-could-hit-with-the-force-of-a-nuclear-weapon-with-no-fallout"},"modified":"2019-02-05T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:23:25","slug":"the-air-forces-rods-from-god-could-hit-with-the-force-of-a-nuclear-weapon-with-no-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-air-forces-rods-from-god-could-hit-with-the-force-of-a-nuclear-weapon-with-no-fallout","title":{"rendered":"The Air Force\u2019s \u2018rods from god\u2019 could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon \u2014 with no fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-air-forces-rods-from-god-could-hit-with-the-force-of-a-nuclear-weapon-with-no-fallout.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed in or used from Earth\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>What they didn\u2019t count on was the US Air Force\u2019s most simple weapon ever: a tungsten rod that could hit a city with the explosive power of an intercontinental ballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p>During the Vietnam War, the US used what it called \u201cLazy Dog\u201d bombs. These were simply solid-steel pieces, less than 2 inches long, fitted with fins.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/air-force-rods-from-god-kinetic-weapon-hit-with-nuclear-weapon-force-2017-9\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/air-force-rods-from-god-kine...2017&#45;9<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed in or used from Earth\u2019s orbit. What they didn\u2019t count on was the US Air Force\u2019s most simple weapon ever: a tungsten rod that could hit a city with the explosive power of an intercontinental ballistic missile. During [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-geopolitics","category-military","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}