Obama to press for drastic cuts in US nuclear arsenal

[grumbler]

A nuclear war is winnable, depending on the opponents.

"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed..."

[Razgovory]

You could end a civilization, yes, but that is not the goal of a large nuclear force.  The mission of a large nuclear force is to destroy all or, if infeasible, almost all of an enemy's nuclear force.

No, that's just for idiots that think a nuclear war is winnable. For everybody else, the point of nuclear weapons is the threat of ending civilization.

What makes you think it's unwinnable?  The only war where they were used was won rather decisively.

[Kleves]

You know, once Obama's done with the military, it will be the first time since WWII that the US will not be able to fight two wars at once or have a credible nuclear first-strike capability.

[Razgovory]

You know, once Obama's done with the military, it will be the first time since WWII that the US will not be able to fight two wars at once or have a credible nuclear first-strike capability.

Then he'll move on to cutting up children and selling their organs for meat.

[Ed Anger]

You know, once Obama's done with the military, it will be the first time since WWII that the US will not be able to fight two wars at once or have a credible nuclear first-strike capability.

Then he'll move on to cutting up children and selling their organs for meat.

Which will replace the horsemeat in European frozen foods.

[CountDeMoney]

You know, once Obama's done with the military, it will be the first time since WWII that the US will not be able to fight two wars at once

We fought two wars at once for most of the last ten years.  How'd that all work out?

or have a credible nuclear first-strike capability.

  OCN.

[Habbaku]

You know, once Obama's done with the military, it will be the first time since WWII that the US will not be able to fight two wars at once or have a credible nuclear first-strike capability.

[Kleves]

All I'm saying is, President McCain would never have allowed this to be happen... we'd also he fighting like 7 wars rights now, and Sarah Palin might be a hightbeat away from the Presidency, but that's another discussion. Nor would President Romney have done this (though he may have outsourced nuclear deterrence to China).

[sbr]

Well thankfully neither of them were elected.

[Eddie Teach]

What makes you think it's unwinnable?  The only war where they were used was won rather decisively.

Was gonna say.

And even today, there are plenty of countries with insufficient nuclear deterrent to make a war unwinnable, and others whose deterrent might be compromised in a first strike. Not that I think it's advisable to test that theory.

[PDH]

You can't hug someone with nuclear arms 

But, on the bright side, you sure can slap them around a lot.