Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack
by beebmam on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @04:56PM
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Isn't everyone? Why haven't we abolished nuclear weapons like we have with Biological and Chemical? We were teetering right on the edge for years in the middle 20th century, and the new China/US cold war will put us right there again.
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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack
by Nbox9 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:14PM
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We abolished biological and chemical weapons because they are considered obsolete tools of war after nuclear was invented. Who enforces the abolishment of bio/chem? States with nuclear arsenals. There’s little appetite in nuclear powered nations for nuclear disarmament. There is appetite for nuclear nonproliferation among nuclear powers, in large part because it maintains the power imbalance.
If you want to push for nuclear disarmament you’ll have to find a different model than bio/chem disarmament.
Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack
by Symmetry on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:24PM
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It's worth noting that the USSR actually kept a lot of anthrax warheads on ICBMs in a counter-value (i.e. against cities) role. But yeah, they're basically only useful for threatening revenge and aren't for actually fighting for the same reason that chemical weapons aren't.
https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack
by Dah00n on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:02PM
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>Why haven't we abolished nuclear weapons like we have with Biological and Chemical
If you believe that the US does not develop, test and have ready bio and chemical weapons then I got a bridge to sell you.