Re:US military eyes prototype mobile nuclear reactor in Idaho
by awestroke on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:38AM
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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?
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Re:US military eyes prototype mobile nuclear reactor in Idaho
by nix23 on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:58AM
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It'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).
Re:US military eyes prototype mobile nuclear reactor in Idaho
by SiempreViernes on Monday September 27, 2021 @06:29AM
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Actually 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.