[Former Proud Canadian]

RDL, a military base on the moon with WMD that can be delivered to earth is NOT a first strike weapon. It is a final strike weapon. The point is that we can hit you last and you can't do anything about it. A moon base is the ultimate high ground.

That's why it is IMPERATIVE from a national security standpoint for the US to, eventually, regain the moon.

[running_dog_lackey]

-—RDL, a military base on the moon with WMD that can be delivered to earth is NOT a first strike weapon. It is a final strike weapon.-—

So, in any conceived conflict with china, they will first strike us with their earth based arsenal. And we will retaliate. The threat that they will have missiles left on the moon does not matter at that point. We can retain some of our arsenal on submarines and have the same advantage.