Quote from 377OHMS:
Well, there goes our nuclear deterrent:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NUCLEAR_WEAPONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
The U.S. already is on track to reduce to 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads by 2018, as required by New START. As of last Sept. 1, the United States had 1,790 warheads and Russia had 1,566, according to treaty-mandated reports by each. The treaty does not bar either country from cutting below 1,550 on their own.
That's far too low already, imo. That's only ~220 missiles with 8 mirvs. Maybe 8 loaded SSBN's? From a strategic standpoint, it's not enough. The US stockpile isn't under threat from internal diversion or a rouge launch, like the Soviets. A more reasonable number would be 3-5K warheads, per side. Also, the missile shield should be pursued to thwart a rouge State, even to include Russia, to avert another arms race. Did Obama axe the missile shield? Not much talk, but space demilitarization treaties are bs. Space has been the frontier for weaponry, since the 70's. Satellite killers and broad/focused EMP weapons render the most sophisticated militaries back to the industrial age, in minutes. Including our own. The US has all this stuff already, and a lot more. But we're not told about it. It's possible America and the Soviets have technologies that make nukes obsolete. Hence the global push to dearm the planet, via START and NPT. This retains Western and Russian dominance with technologies that aren't covered, while boxing everyone else in to inferior technologies that are covered by treaty or "persuasion".
