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How can the be a nuclear arms race if everyone already finished the race decades ago and there's enough nuclear bombs to turn the whole world into a wasteland?
by awestroke 5y ago
How can the be a nuclear arms race if everyone already finished the race decades ago and there's enough nuclear bombs to turn the whole world into a wasteland?
- nix23 5y agoIt's easy, if you invest in weapons who could potentially stop the other side from delivering the "atomic-payload" you force them to make them "better/different", this is how you start a race without even touching your actual arsenal. And that's why the US should not place anti icbm stuff near the russian border (turky, poland enc).
- SiempreViernes 5y agoActually that's why the US shouldn't have unilaterally left the ABM treaty in 2002, but by now the Russians are a fair bit along in developing nuclear powered cruise missiles. Who knows, they might be working on (fractional) orbiting nuclear weapons too, they've deployed such systems before.
- nix23 5y ago>Actually that's why the US shouldn't have unilaterally left the ABM treaty in 2002 Absolutely on your side with that.