I agree. Instead of decommissioning SSBNs we should be building MORE. And with more nuclear warheads for them too.
"I agree. Instead of decommissioning SSBNs we should be building MORE. And with more nuclear warheads for them too."
Why?
We had complete nuclear supremacy over Korea. Didn't prevent that war; didn't win it.
We had complete nuclear supremacy over Vietnam. Didn't prevent that war; didn't win it.
We had complete nuclear supremacy over Iran in 1979. Didn't keep them from taking our people hostage, nor did that supremacy free those hostages.
We could obliterate the Islamist world in an afternoon, no problem...but we don't.
Nuclear weapons are expensive to buy, really expensive to guard, and haven't done a damn thing for this country since 1945.
On the other side...
The USSR had complete nuclear supremacy over Afghanistan. Fat lot of good it did them, right?
The ChiComs have complete nuclear supremacy over Taiwan. Whole bunch of good it's doing them now, huh?