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After a certain point it's irrelevant. Soviets developed the Tsar Bomba; should the US have tried to one up them?
by JustAnotherPat 9y ago
After a certain point it's irrelevant. Soviets developed the Tsar Bomba; should the US have tried to one up them?
- bpicolo 9y agoWe did one up them, over and over again - just with strategies other than "make one bigger bomb".
- YetAnotherNick 9y agoReally? How? You can say that world has more impact due to US's military, but how has russia been one uped ever?
- jackaroe78 9y agoThe US did it with significantly fewer bullets to the back of necks & babies going hungry.
- bpicolo 9y agoThere's a crap ton of tech in the military world, and the US is generally the most advanced at a lot of it. Both public knowledge (F-22/F-35, THAAD, aircraft carriers) and all the other sorts of crap - satellites/surveillance tech, software (stuxnet), whatever. The arms race never stopped, it's just not about making singularly bigger bombs anymore, because they're plenty big to destroy the whole planet many times over. The US isn't spending 800 billion a year on nothing.