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Incidentally, the infamous Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun was immediately hired by the USA after the war, because the USA just loves Nazis. He once proposed that the USA build an orbital weapons platform, to ensure world peace through raining down death on anyone who questions you. His fellow less Nazi scientists soundly rebuked this, and Wernher von Braun himself eventually admitted it wasn't feasible, because when you're on a weapons platform hurtling at high speeds in orbit around the planet, it's a lot harder to aim than if you just launch a rocket from the ground.
That being said, orbital death platforms are soooooo badass anyone would forgive someone who didn't try to realistically approach how hard it would be to maintain and operate it up in orbit in a vacuum. If I was a megalomaniacal time travelling mass murderer, I sure would build my missile silos in a remote location on the planet's surface, before launching them off to glass the Roman empire. But either way works, in a story.
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