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> Nukes are expensive just because they are expensive. Always have been, always will be. You are replying to a post that provides historical evidence and geui
by ClumsyPilot 5y ago
> Nukes are expensive just because they are expensive. Always have been, always will be.
You are replying to a post that provides historical evidence and geuine argument, and your only counter argument is a Tautology and outright dismissal?
- ncmncm 5y agoThere is a great deal of history in nuke implementation. We don't need to guess how things play out, because we have seen how they play out. Back in the '50s, the promise was that power from nukes would be "too cheap to meter". They knew they were lying when they promised that, as we now know from internal memos. Cost estimates published have never matched actual costs. Delivery schedules published have never matched actual delivery, when anything is delivered; and when not, none of the money is ever returned. So, the first and most important lesson about nukes is that what promoters estimate bears no resemblance to what might be delivered, and relying on such estimates puts you in a bottomless moneypit.