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Martin Eastburn wrote on 8/24/2017 11:12 PM:
If you remember, China was blowing up missiles off the launch pad until
- The then President Clinton gave the Chinese the inertial guidance
system


Please explain how "inertial guidance system" can mitigate "blowing up
missiles off the launch pad".

Common sense dictates that the guidance system inside a missile has
nothing to do with a missile blowing up off the launch pad.
Well, if the guidance system fails catastrophically, it can lead to the
missile breaking up from dynamic forces. If it fails less badly, the range
safety officer will have to blow it up before it hits a populated area.
Most tests have command destruct systems. No idea if they do that in DPRK,
though.

Jon