[noiseman]

We never should have given up the MX missile ("Peacekeeper"). They were dismantled under the START treaty, even though they were relatively new and far more capable than the Minuteman. Each carried 10 warheads compared to the Minuteman's max, I believe, of 3.

I helped build them when I worked for Martin Marietta in the early '80s. A tremendous amount of work went into creating that system (as well as a ton of money), then we just gave it away only a few years into its lifespan. It was really hard to watch them being destroyed. And now, here we are looking to spend billions more to replicate what we already had.

[Hugh the Scot]

I’m not particularly nostalgic for the Peacekeeper system. Once deployed, they had issues of their own.

Say what you want about minuteman III, but they’ve stood alert reliably for a minute.

[Vinnie]

How many new ICBMs have the Russians built in the last 10 yrs.
Two? Three?
Several variants of the Topol. One, SS-27, as late as 2014 designed to be impervious to US defenses.

And we just sit with our hands over our ears going “la-la-la-la”