Posted on 11/22/2017 8:41:39 AM PST by BusterDog
Of all weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, the ICBM is the one most likely to cause accidental nuclear war, arms-control specialists say. It is for this reason that a growing number of former defense officials, scholars of military strategy and some members of Congress have begun calling for the elimination of ICBMs.
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
From “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” by Rudyard Kipling
There is nothing our media won’t say for China.
Are they differentiating between ICBMs and SLBMs? Because, as a “use em or lose em” weapon, the land-based missile does force a response.
But they also want to to cut the next gen Boomers and make some of them SSGNs from the start. We need lots of both.
Whoa! That’s a dangerous level of stupid...
Our ICBMs haven’t gone off accidentally, but apparently our “experts” have.
What qualifies one to be called an ‘expert’?
SUV’s armed with assault rifles and ICBM’s.
Ah this is a wire story, a viral arm is of the old media, and a rat party promoter, so if they favor it, count me against it.
How about we just arrest these idiots for treason...
USA self-destructs! All ICBMs smashed! Only Russia, China have ICBMs capable of starting an ‘accidental’ nuclear war’; since they are not evil, there is no problem with those peaceful nations having ICBMs for self-defense!
Sidebar:
Russia claims Europe, Alaska and California south to San Francisco, China claims Africa and India, Mexico claims all of the US, except parts claimed by Russia.
Glad we got rid of those horrible weapons, such a relief now Americans can focus on the real enemy: manmade climate change!
And not just in the military.
send these experts to Iran and see how long they last.
Well, if unnamed “experts” say so...
Yes...Their hero couldn’t disarm the US like his commie handlers wanted, so now they’re just flat out saying we should do away with our defense mechanisms. If that were to happen (scrapping ICBMs), we would then start to read stories how B-1s, 2s, and B-52s are detrimental to the environment and must be destroyed. Commies are very predictable!
Pure leftist BS
Exactly!
Nailed it.
Four more years of Obama might have done the trick....
If you take away our nuclear weapons you put us at a massive disadvantage especially fighting a war in Asia where the numbers don’t favor us.
Nuclear weapons capable of being delivered anywhere on the planet in 30 minutes gives us a great deal of deterrence for not a great deal of of money.
The people advocating this idiocy are the same ones who wanted us to disarm before the Soviets. They were wrong then and they are wrong now.
I was a missileer at Ellsworth in the early 80’s. To get those puppies off the ground requires a lot more than an “oops.”
I don’t have time to read this drivel; I just wonder if they call for all ICBMs, not just ours.
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