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My understanding is that a ballistic missile sub can park close enough off our coast to fire their missiles in a depressed trajectory mode and hit coastal targets like DC or NYC in just a few minutes.
The time to launch has to be short enough to allow a counterstrike to be authorized and launched before the chain of command is disrupted, if not decapitated, and the opponent needs to understand that will take place regardless.
IIRC, that is one of the reasons for the quick timing.
If you tell me that you can launch a counterstrike in four minutes, then I have to work to get my retaliatory strike in under that time.
TR
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