Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "AT&T Tech Channel" channel.

My understanding was that the Zeus A carried the 25 KT W31 and the B was to carry the 400 KT W50 enhanced radiation warhead.
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@georgewallot7739 the early Nike were conventional warheads, from Ajax through Zeus were nukes, with the B model Zeus carrying a neutron bomb to fizzle incoming warhead electronics and fissile mass in the warheads. Also, that same company brought us nationwide fiber optic cables, much of which the US government leased from them and only recently handed back the control of (well, what they weren't using, as upgrades over time made the links a lot faster). WWII saw pretty much every company producing military products, from a pilot lamp company producing submachine guns to IBM and Singer (to name just two out of many) producing M2 .50 cal machine guns. After the war ended, quite a few kept parts of their military products divisions and contributed to the Cold War efforts. Companies do, after all, exist in order to make money.
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There's this neat new thing called a search engine. If you do a search for a non-classified project, you'll likely find it. Classified projects might have a declassified version as well. Classified stuff, well, you don't know so that any adversaries also don't know. Otherwise, they'd counter them and the money and effort would be wasted.
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@micheldiaz3359 yeah, nobody trained in how to wind them up in the morning. Crazy though, using thermonuclear warheads to destroy thermonuclear warheads over our cities, although most were dedicated to protecting military bases, not cities. With the Zeus hefting an early version of a neutron bomb, so it could fizzle incoming nukes, as well as fry their electronics. Thankfully, technology has improved and only conventional explosives are used to kill an incoming warhead.
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No, they couldn't. Their maximum range was in the hundreds of miles, so they'd only end up hitting something in the US and that'd have been counterproductive. These protected bomber bases and ICBM launch sites.
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Yeah, how terrible of them to get rid of the Nikes and thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at each other. Exterminating all life on earth was far more sensible.
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