If so-called “Rods from God”–an informal nickname of untraceable origin–ever do materialize, it won’t be for at least 15 years.

However, a practical demonstration in 2018 showed potential, but also raised questions about the usefulness of "rods from God" as a weapon. Scientists released a 308-pound tungsten rod from a ...

THE RODS may indeed be more science fiction than science. They are at least 10 years away from being operational, and the cost of launching heavy tungsten rods into orbit would be, well, astronomical.

The rods, however, would violate the spirit of the more general Outer Space Treaty. Beyond potential treaty concerns, though, there is another problem with rods from God.

The “rods from God” idea was a bundle of telephone-pole sized (20 feet long, one foot in diameter) tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching a speed of up to ten times the speed of sound.

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Rods From God. Thinktank RAND proposed putting tungsten rods on ICBMS in place of nuclear warheads back in the 1950s in Project Thor, and the idea wasused by science fiction writers including ...

Traveling at hypersonic speeds of Mach 5 or greater, these so-called “Rods from God” would be so completely devastating, they could totally forgo any explosive payload—be it conventional, or ...

Of all the far-fetched space weapons hyped by the Times last month, "Rods from God" are probably the most dubious. That doesn't stop the Weekly Standard from panting about how totally wicked ...