Excuse me Kiloton but still 350 KT significantly more than 20kt and you were not talking just one but 5. Why stop there why not ten or 15 is it no big deal? . Is there going to be some gentlemen's agreement that we won't nuke you more than you nuke us? Good grief.
Excuse me Kiloton but still 350 KT significantly more than 20kt and you were not talking just one but 5. Why stop there why not ten or 15 is it no big deal? . Is there going to be some gentlemen's agreement that we won't nuke you more than you nuke us? Good grief.
Again, the issue is about not putting the President in a position where the only choice is to respond with a full launch or nothing after only being hit with 5 small nukes. That is the stability that the ICBMs provide - 450 hardened targets that have to be destroyed.
Without our 450 stabilizing ICBMs we could be attacked by only 5 small warheads and the only surviving element of our nuclear deterrent would be our at-sea SSBNs. Those SSBNs would have no spare parts and no repair crews. The only choice would be to launch a full retaliatory strike while we still have them or to let them slowly wither away and die on the vine.
Excuse me Kiloton but still 350 KT significantly more than 20kt and you were not talking just one but 5. Why stop there why not ten or 15 is it no big deal? . Is there going to be some gentlemen's agreement that we won't nuke you more than you nuke us? Good grief.
Again, the issue is about not putting the President in a position where the only choice is to respond with a full launch or nothing after only being hit with 5 small nukes. That is the stability that the ICBMs provide - 450 hardened targets that have to be destroyed.
Without our 450 stabilizing ICBMs we could be attacked by only 5 small warheads and the only surviving element of our nuclear deterrent would be our at-sea SSBNs. Those SSBNs would have no spare parts and no repair crews. The only choice would be to launch a full retaliatory strike while we still have them or to let them slowly wither away and die on the vine.