The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of

Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by Gibbon1 on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:27PM (#38308760)

Growing up in the middle of the cold war and with some sense of history it dawned on me that the whole thing was an aberration. Geopolitically the world is usually not like that. I thought eventually the cold war order would fall ppart and it did. Think reversion to the mean.

Got to say anytime someone whines that we can't afford some public works project like the California High speed rail I think of the much larger amount were spending on nukes. With $1.5T we could crisscross the US with high speed rail. Unlike nukes you personally might actually use it.

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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by ethanbond on Saturday November 18, 2023 @08:50AM (#38319579)

Not much about the Cold War tension actually got dismantled, from a nuclear risk perspective. We put the revolver to our collective heads during the Cold War and didn’t put it back down, just merely got used to holding it there.

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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by Gibbon1 on Saturday November 18, 2023 @08:08PM (#38327129)

I might describe the western countries as being cocksure and overly optimistic after the USSR fell apart. Would also describe the amount of nuclear weapons produced during the 1960-70's as insane and serving no rational reason other than pure pork.

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