MrRodgers -> RE: Is war inevitable? (2/12/2017 9:41:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods Strategic arms limitation talks? There were two sets, one starting in the early 'sixties and achieving very little, and the one in the 'seventies that led to a few obvious bits of suicidal foolishness being abandoned for a while. We definitely would be better off buying nukes from the French than from the Americans though, no question. I don't know what's supposed to be wrong about American nukes but the Trident works fine. There have been 161 successful test flights of the D5 missile since design completion in 1989, the most recent being from the USS Maryland (SSBN-738) in August 2016. The SSBN's strategic weapon is the Trident II D5 missile, which provides increased range and accuracy over the now out-of-service Trident I C4 missile. 14 subs each have 24 missiles each with multiple warheads for a first or second strike capability. And to answer the big question: active / total Russia 1,790 / 7,300 United States 1,750 / 6,970 United Kingdom 150 / 215 China ? / 260 You know, that may not be quite enough warheads/missiles...ya think ? And just to cheer everyone up, nine (9) countries have 15,000 nukes. There will be wars but they won't be big and won't be nuke but they'll damn sure...be a profit.
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