Alexander Richter

Alexander Richter is the deputy director of the Nuclear Policy Working Group and a research apprentice at the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.

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Airmen work on a Minuteman III’s Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) system. Current missiles carry a single warhead.

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The Case for Re-MIRVing America’s ICBMs

By: Alexander Richter

Published: May 20, 2026

To offset quantitative increases in adversary arsenals in a two-peer nuclear environment, U.S. policymakers should re-deploy multiple-independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) on the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).