There's top secret technology that goes into various weapons systems. I sincerely doubt there are any TS weapons. However, I just had a Secret clearance, so I wouldn't have been privy to them.
So instead of being able to destroy the world 50x over, we'll only be able to annihilate all life on Earth only 48x over.
Aren't those numbers classified and if not they should be.
Dr. Strangelove : Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
Ambassador de Sadesky : It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
So instead of being able to destroy the world 50x over, we'll only be able to annihilate all life on Earth only 48x over.
Aren't those numbers classified and if not they should be.
1000 nukes don't mean chit if the other guy has 2000 and he now knows he outnumbers you 2 to 1.
Are there any top secret weapons?
God, I love when the ignorant say these kinds of things.
You are aware that the actual yield of our nukes is not all that big, right? What, do you think we are stockpiling huge numbers of 20 megaton bombs that could destroy a city?
The current warhead on the Trident is the W76-2. With a yield of 5-7kt. That is 1/2 to 1/3 the yield of even the Little Boy Device. The Minuteman ICBMs? With either a W87 (300 kt) or W78 (350 kt) warhead. The largest "nukes" we have in our inventory is the roughly 650 B83 gravity bombs, at a whopping 1.2 mt. The vast majority are in the single or low double digit kt range.
I always laugh when people for some stupid reason want to believe that every nuke the US has is some kind of monster, like the 60 mt Tsar Bomb.
There's top secret technology that goes into various weapons systems. I sincerely doubt there are any TS weapons. However, I just had a Secret clearance, so I wouldn't have been privy to them.
The W76-2 has only barely begun deployment and it’s unclear if it’s going to replace all Trident D5 warheads. Most D5’s are armed with ~100kt W76-1’s.
It does matter, because those 1,000 warheads will still destroy the other guy. The fact that he can kill you twice while you kill him once still leaves him dead.
"Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French."
1000 nukes don't mean chit if the other guy has 2000 and he now knows he outnumbers you 2 to 1.
A lot of people have a very childish and simplistic mindset. That if we throw away all of our nukes, then everybody else will do the same. A nice dream, but it is not reality. And as I live in the real world, and recognize that a great many countries would not hesitate to use their nukes if they thought there would be no retaliation.
Why bother after 1,000?
The consequences of that many nukes going off will be the end of all life so who cares if the enemy has 10,000?
Everyones still just as dead.
It wouldn’t be the “end of all life”.
Secrecy is a big part of US militarism.
What would it be?
Reducing the standard of living in struck area to the medieval period and leaving lingering radiation causing birth defects and cancers for decades to maybe a century.
It wouldn’t be the “end of all life”.
Even the relatively small Nuclear arsenal's of the UK and France are enough to end any country on the planet. The reality is most politicians enjoy power and money, ergo they would rather not loose it all.
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