Nope also what is the purpose of the boomer submarine fleet now? If you refuse to launch a nuke you don’t need strategic defense.
Nope also what is the purpose of the boomer submarine fleet now? If you refuse to launch a nuke you don’t need strategic defense.
Well, I coulda sworn that many articles were talking about nuclear bunker busters. Maybe those articles were just "talking through their hat" ... LOL ...
BUT, in regards to those submarines, we've got enough there to obliterate the rest of the world. There's no shortage of nuclear weaponry there.
And the MAD Doctrine is still in place, no matter what, because of those submarines. If any country attempts to bomb the U.S. with nuclear weapons, they know that even if it's "after the fact" of an attack happening here on U.S. soil -- that country will "no longer exists" after that happens here. You can thank the submarines for that one.
So, that deterrence is still there (with other nations doing that to us).
It's just that this kind of deterrence, is of no use to lunatic and fringe groups, like these Islamic terrorists, who also can acquire the capability of bombing us with nuclear weapons in our major cities.
No matter what you do with your "nuclear policy", those groups are still going to operate just as they did before.
And, furthermore, I believe the Bush Administration when it said it was not a matter of "if" -- but only a matter of "when" such an attack happened to the United States. They were saying that it's a certainty and that they were preparing for it to happen.
That's where I would concentrate our efforts -- is on these crazy and lunatic fringe groups who can carry off an attack like this -- and not be that concerned about our nuclear policy with some country sending missiles over here to nuke us -- because that country won't be existing the "day after" and other countries "know that" ... LOL ...