Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: redgolum

The SALT Treaty with the USSR allowed each country to put anti-ballistic systems in one place per country. The USA opted to ring the ICBM fields to have them available for retaliation against a first strike.

The USSR, who swore they would NEVER be the first to launch in a nuclear war opted to ring Moscow with ABM. Why the difference? Russia had no need to protect their missile fields as they would be emptied out in a first strike. So much for NEVER being the first to launch.


45 posted on 03/27/2018 3:45:57 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies ]


To: sparklite2

The USA opted to ring the ICBM fields to have them available for retaliation against a first strike.
______________________

Nope...there was one ABM system that was built but never operated for the missile complex that was at Grand Forks AFB. All of the Minuteman missiles are gone and the mission closed.

The remaining 400 (out of the 1,000 once deployed) Minuteman missiles are located at Malmstrom AFB (Great Falls, MT), Minot AFB ND and F.E. Warren AFB (Cheyenne, WY).

That’s it folks...and it’s all in the public domain and unclassified.


59 posted on 03/27/2018 7:37:23 PM PDT by Skybird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson