President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START treaty with the United States that limits the two sides' strategic nuclear arsenals.
They put the silos away from large cities because they are first or second targets. You could be in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by nukes in the US.
As much as I trust the US military to tell the entire world exactly where the most powerful ICBMs are located, I have a gut feeling there are some that are hidden to the public, the other nuke havers quietly know about.
Submarines, mostly. There are a bunch of boomers cruising around all over the place all the time with a bunch of missiles each. If the enemy doesn't know where the nuke subs are then there's nothing they can do to destroy them before they launch their nukes in retaliation.
Yeah, the UK's whole nuclear deterrent is no one being certain where their subs are at any given moment so they can't take out the nuke subs and prevent the UK from launching a retaliatory strike.
They put the silos away from large cities because they are first or second targets. You could be in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by nukes in the US.
As much as I trust the US military to tell the entire world exactly where the most powerful ICBMs are located, I have a gut feeling there are some that are hidden to the public, the other nuke havers quietly know about.
They're on submarines
Submarines, mostly. There are a bunch of boomers cruising around all over the place all the time with a bunch of missiles each. If the enemy doesn't know where the nuke subs are then there's nothing they can do to destroy them before they launch their nukes in retaliation.
we keep all ours on submarines afaik
with one storage location in scotland
edit: flicking through a parliamentary briefing document, there are also the manufacturing plants in berkshire where they are built and maintained
Yeah, the UK's whole nuclear deterrent is no one being certain where their subs are at any given moment so they can't take out the nuke subs and prevent the UK from launching a retaliatory strike.
Someone link that Limmy video of him going over the nuke location in Scotland.
"it's in the middle of no-where, completely away from people!" westminster insists while pointing at a place uncomfortably close to Glasgow