{"id":92630,"date":"2019-06-25T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hypersonic-missiles-are-unstoppable-and-theyre-starting-a-new-global-arms-race"},"modified":"2019-06-25T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T09:02:14","slug":"hypersonic-missiles-are-unstoppable-and-theyre-starting-a-new-global-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hypersonic-missiles-are-unstoppable-and-theyre-starting-a-new-global-arms-race","title":{"rendered":"Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They\u2019re Starting a New Global Arms Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hypersonic-missiles-are-unstoppable-and-theyre-starting-a-new-global-arms-race2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The arrival of such fast weaponry will dangerously compress the time during which military officials and their political leaders \u2014 in any country \u2014 can figure out the nature of an attack and make reasoned decisions about the wisdom and scope of defensive steps or retaliation. And the threat that hypersonics pose to retaliatory weapons creates what scholars call \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d pressures on countries to strike first during a crisis. Experts say that the missiles could upend the grim psychology of Mutual Assured Destruction, the bedrock military doctrine of the nuclear age that argued globe-altering wars would be deterred if the potential combatants always felt certain of their opponents\u2019 devastating response.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/at-war\" title=\"At War\">At War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new weapons \u2014 which could travel at more than 15 times the speed of sound with terrifying accuracy \u2014 threaten to change the nature of warfare.<\/p>\n<p>A Mach 14 Waverider glide vehicle, which takes its name from its ability to generate high lift and ride on its own shock waves. This shape is representative of the type of systems the United States is developing today. Credit Credit Dan Winters for The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of such fast weaponry will dangerously compress the time during which military officials and their political leaders \u2014 in any country \u2014 can figure out the nature of an attack and make reasoned decisions about the wisdom and scope of defensive steps or retaliation. And the threat that hypersonics pose to retaliatory weapons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92630","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}