Obama considering steep nuclear arms cuts

[Eddie Teach]

The US will never achieve that level of space tech.  You guys have given up, and it will be up to others to decide if mankind ever gets to the stars.

Nah, we just need some competition. I'm sure NASA will get a shitload of dough when China gets to the moon.

[Josquius]

This would likely hit the USAF/Navy the most, but I am in favor.  We don't really need more than a few hundred, if even that.  And being that this refers to "deployed", I imagine we would still have plenty in storage, if needed for alien invasion or rogue asteroids.

It does create some interesting tradeoffs, though.  Obviously, you don't want to have 300 warheads on 30 missiles - that's too few baskets for your eggs.  OTOH, how do the two sides verify that a lower warhead count per missile has actually been implemented?

The notion that the Russians are not cheating on these easily cheat-able treaties is ridicoulous.

Thats their economic loss

[Faeelin]

Are we expecting imminent nuclear war to break out with anyone? Worrying if we'd be capable of decapitating China and the Russians in a first strike seems a bit silly.

[Eddie Teach]

Are we expecting imminent nuclear war to break out with anyone? Worrying if we'd be capable of decapitating China and the Russians in a first strike seems a bit silly.

I take it you weren't a Boy Scout.

[Admiral Yi]

Faeelin believes in getting into a nuclear exchange with the nuclear weapons you have, not the nuclear weapons you wish you had.

[grumbler]

Are we expecting imminent nuclear war to break out with anyone? Worrying if we'd be capable of decapitating China and the Russians in a first strike seems a bit silly.

Agree.  A competent leader plans to allow potential enemies to annihilate the leader's nation rather than bother with silly things like winning the war per-emptively.

[Razgovory]

Once the asteroid mass-drivers are in orbit, we won't need any nukes. 

An asteroid leaving the belt would take year or so to reach the Earth.  That's not much of a deterrent.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Would any other nation in the world survive a nukuler detonation on their capitol? I don't see Russia or China, at least in their present governmental forms.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I never understood why the peaceniks were in favour of nuclear disarmament, seeing as if we ever did get rid of the atom bomb, we'd be back to fighting total wars between the Great Powers again.

might knock some sense in the peaceniks :p

[Grey Fox]

Would any other nation in the world survive a nukuler detonation on their capitol? I don't see Russia or China, at least in their present governmental forms.

Australia maybe. It's big place and some place might not notice that Canberra is gone.

[mongers]

Would any other nation in the world survive a nukuler detonation on their capitol? I don't see Russia or China, at least in their present governmental forms.

Most, unless it's a very small country.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Would any other nation in the world survive a nukuler detonation on their capitol? I don't see Russia or China, at least in their present governmental forms.

Australia maybe. It's big place and some place might not notice that Canberra is gone.

Belgium :p, We've had practice the last 1.5 years

[Darth Wagtaros]

Would any other nation in the world survive a nukuler detonation on their capitol? I don't see Russia or China, at least in their present governmental forms.

Most, unless it's a very small country.

I do not ean survive in terms of cultural and population extinction.  Would American Democracy endure if NYC or washington were nuked tomorrow? Would the PRC suffer severe turmoil if Beijing or a major financial and industrial center like Shanghai were wrecked?

[mongers]

Do you really think Americans are that pathetic ?

[Ideologue]

Are we expecting imminent nuclear war to break out with anyone? Worrying if we'd be capable of decapitating China and the Russians in a first strike seems a bit silly.

Go back to Woodstock.