Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister.
ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s.
Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with no nuclear fallout at terminus.
The west evens refers to the Soviet/Russian SS-18 as Satan.
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