A nuclear cloud. Sixty years after the first atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert, the United States still has some 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert and is considering new weapons such as earth-penetrating bunker busters(AFP/File)
Bunker-buster bombs. The United States is close to testing a new missile aimed at destroying deep bunkers where suspected weapons of mass destruction are stored, the British weekly New Scientist says.(AFP/US Navy-HO/File/Felix Garza Jr.)
Who the hell is this guy to decide America's entire strategic weapons posture?
These people are either wearing blinders or they have taken China off their maps.
Who was the expert that recently said it's one big bluff? Our military would carry out the order, but that order would never come since no president would ever retaliate. That's what this expert said.
And not a single one of them is pointed anywhere in the USA. It's one reason I sleep well at night.
"We have about 2,000 which are on hair trigger alert, which means they can be ready to go within minutes of that decision to launch," she said.
Ooooooh! "Hair trigger." That sounds so scary! They could go off with the slightest nudge. Horsesh!t. The author of this article is using "hair trigger" words to work on your emotions.
These weapons, at least the ones the US has, are impossible to detonate accidentally, or even on purpose without authorization. We lost a nuclear submarine with two nuclear weapons on board. Both are at the bottom of the sea. They did not, and never will, explode. We've jettisoned them from airplanes, both into the sea and onto land; crashed airplanes with nukes aboard, and blew at least one out of a silo when the rocket booster exploded. None of them went off. None caused any damage.
LOL! We have 2,000 nukes on a hair trigger. :D Let me at the sights and give me the keys! :D
I remember something about early russian warheads that were in the 100 megaton size to make up for the inaccuracy of their ICBMs. What happened to THOSE fatboys.
