Re: USAF Unveils B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 5:19 am
Do you trust us more than we trusted Saddam Hussein?slowpoke wrote:You mean the nuclear cruise missiles we dont have anymore since we finished decomissioning all their warheads a couple years ago?randy wrote:I think part of the reason for the delay in ICBM replacement is that there is a group in the 5-sided funny farm that thinks of the Nuclear Triad as "cold war thinking" and thinks that we can get by with SLBMs and cruise missiles, so having to deactivate the Minutemen due to aging out of components is a feature, not a bug.
Of course, the real stupidity in this area was the retirement of the newer Peacekeepers due to slavish adherence to an un-ratified treaty with a country that no longer exists.