Posted on 02/03/2009 1:57:23 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Oh, I’m sure he means that WE will reduce our nuclear stockpile by 80%
“to show leadership”
Actually, given the yields of many of them, they aren't. I'll bet you that there are more than 1,000 targets in China and Russia that could survive anything short of a direct nuclear hit and it's not a given that all will be delivered or work as intended. The threat of turning each other into a smouldering greasy spot is what kept the United States, Soviet Union, and China from a direct military confrontation through the latter half of the 20th Century. Why are we messing with success?
I told my daughter this information during the election. She repeated it in class to the amusement of her teacher and was belittled for it and he practically called me a moron.
I can’t WAIT to find out this jerk’s email address and send him the article.
And if anyone believes that Russia really WILL get rid of their nuclear arms, I have some ocean property in Arizona...
Jimmy Carter was my first thought too.
Obama’s going to think he’s actually winning the three-card-monty game, until the other players kick over the cardboard box and disappear into the crowd with American’s lost military dominance in their pockets.
Now that I see this article I mark it as a prophetic dream that we need to be praying against!!!
“The threat of turning each other into a smouldering greasy spot is what kept the United States, Soviet Union, and China from a direct military confrontation through the latter half of the 20th Century. Why are we messing with success”?
If it’s not one horseman, it’s another.
Anyone ever see the movie “7 Days In May”?
>> Then let’s work to expand and improve nuclear weapons in the US.
I would also point out that improving our own nuclear weapons capability — indeed, ALL defense spending — is REAL stimulus to the economy, not that fake welfare crapola they’re peddling.
Didn’t Sec. Def. Cohen place flowers in the nuke silos in Russia?
This clown will start WW3. 1000 warheads is NOT enough to protect us from Russia AND China. If we go into WW3 with this
group of morons in charge ... WE WILL LOSE ... BIG TIME
It will be nearly impossible to build a defense against supersonic cruise missiles. ICBMs, it’s a given. Cruise missiles, big vulnerability.
Remember also that our large population bases are generally near the ocean.
Worldwide something like 80 to 90% of the earth’s populace lives withing 100 miles of an ocean. (I may be off by a bit here, but it’s something close to this)
It's a darned shame that Mister Obama just doesn't have the same affection have we for this great Country, and our customs, and our ways, and our remarkable history; and he apparently sees little need for its defense. .
Next, the total elimination of nuclear weapons by the world’s superpowers, thus insuring parity with every rogue state on the planet.....
.....and conventional warfare in perpetuity.
Something they never mention is the correct definition of the word “overkill”. What few people realize is that overkill does *not* mean hitting the same target multiple times.
Instead, overkill means that missiles experience such incredible stresses from leaving their silo to hitting their target, that a significant number of them don’t work. You have to fire extra missiles to hit all the targets you want to hit.
But how many missiles don’t work? Often the number can be very high, from 20-60%. Many will blow up in their silos, or fail at several stages during launch, go off course, tear themselves apart in flight, and to top it all off, their nuclear weapon doesn’t go off.
A nuclear detonation can seriously damage missiles in a very wide area around it, with an electromagnetic pulse, a shock wave, heat and radiation.
So how many nuclear weapons targets are there in Russia? If there are more than 400 to 800, there is a likelihood that the US would need more missiles. However, this assumes that we would use all our missiles up at once, and keep none in reserve.
This would be foolish to do, given the strong chance that many targets wouldn’t be hit at all.
Oh yes, and did I forgot to mention enemy anti-missile missiles? Just flying our missiles there is not enough. They have to evade the missile defenses.
So how many missiles is enough? Probably a lot more than 1000.
Because Obambi wrote a college term paper saying "we can."
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