The United States currently deploys hundreds of nuclear missiles across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Each missile carries a nuclear payload many times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people. The Pentagon is now planning to build a new, deadlier generation of these missiles, which are housed in underground silos.
But these intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, are not meant to be launched, ever. Not even in a nuclear war. Their primary mission is to be destroyed in the ground, along with all the people that live anywhere near them. Their main purpose is to “absorb” a nuclear attack from Russia, acting as a giant “nuclear sponge.” Such is the twisted logic of atomic warfare.
Actually that kind of makes sense. I read somewhere that China is building a shitload of nuclear silos in remote areas, many more than they have nukes to fill, in order to draw US fire away from population centres.
I mean...maybe I'm missing something, but the only way I see nukes ever being deployed going forward is by a country that is being conquered, as a last act of defiance
I don't think a country in those dire straits is gonna care about whether they get return fire or not
Their greatest hits album just mutes that entire verse so you just have this long pointless solo/bridge.
But I don't get the point. Isn't it a conversation between working class mooks that resolves that homosexual signifiers are meaningless when the person under discussion is drowning in pussy and money (and that slur may even just arise out of resentment)? Is this not how people spoke at the time? It's like banning Huck Finn because there's an n-word in it.
Mattis said, “It’s clear they are so buried out in the central U.S. that any enemy that wants to take us on is going to have to commit two, three, four weapons to make sure they take each one out. In other words, the ICBM force provides a cost-imposing strategy on an adversary.”
You know, I feel like if somebody is committed enough to blowing the US up that they are willing to use nuclear weapons in order to do so, they
Aren't going to care about the cost, and
Probably don't care if they knock out all of the US' nukes or not
Since launching such weapons has long been considered suicidal anyway. But if we stopped building nukes, I guess we would have to cut the defense budget
Why would you even need the payload if they're not meant to be launched? Just put dummy warheads on them and save your rare and valuable enriched uranium for things you can actually use
If any of them are fake, then it's possible for a spy to leak that information, which would be useful information if you are short one nuke and thinking about popping a fascist country.
Another nuclear war population center design consideration...
Actually that kind of makes sense. I read somewhere that China is building a shitload of nuclear silos in remote areas, many more than they have nukes to fill, in order to draw US fire away from population centres.
I mean...maybe I'm missing something, but the only way I see nukes ever being deployed going forward is by a country that is being conquered, as a last act of defiance
I don't think a country in those dire straits is gonna care about whether they get return fire or not
nerdo correction you are entirely free to ignore because prescriptivism is bullshit, but might help with making puns about how bad heteros are
dire straits
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Kind of a shame about the lyrics, because the guitar intro is amazing
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Their greatest hits album just mutes that entire verse so you just have this long pointless solo/bridge.
But I don't get the point. Isn't it a conversation between working class mooks that resolves that homosexual signifiers are meaningless when the person under discussion is drowning in pussy and money (and that slur may even just arise out of resentment)? Is this not how people spoke at the time? It's like banning Huck Finn because there's an n-word in it.
Nah, dire straights are just twice the size of normal straights and feral.
You right
I need my caffeine
You know, I feel like if somebody is committed enough to blowing the US up that they are willing to use nuclear weapons in order to do so, they
Since launching such weapons has long been considered suicidal anyway. But if we stopped building nukes, I guess we would have to cut the defense budget
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Lol true flyover state shit
Why would you even need the payload if they're not meant to be launched? Just put dummy warheads on them and save your rare and valuable enriched uranium for things you can actually use
Because that's not as profitable for the contractors making and maintaining those nukes.
If any of them are fake, then it's possible for a spy to leak that information, which would be useful information if you are short one nuke and thinking about popping a fascist country.
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