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Eh, given how old the crap is, I'm not sure I agree. Cancel an aircraft carrier or some F-35s if necessary, but I do want a strong nuclear deterrent for whatever the future may bring, not shit that might become vulnerable to a new countermeasure.
Not a "good enough" deterrent, but a strong one.
That said, we probably could pare the stockpile back. But modernization and updates are important. These missiles are older than we are, unless you're some hip Lemmy grandpa or something.
I guess, but the U.S. also supposedly has 3708 warheads, with another 1336 "retired" warheads which are supposedly just sitting around waiting to be disarmed, which sounds like code to me for "we can still use these if we feel like it."
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-weapons-who-has-what-glance
Maybe if we're going to start updating our nukes, we can actually start dismantling the old ones?
Goddamm homie just read the damn article. We are only making 1 bomb but updating 450 silos. That's prolly where much of the unexpected costs is. Not like we're testing these silos regularly and what good is any nukes if the silos themselves get jammed or fuck up anywhere.
If I remember right, we were dismantling a lot of them during the Obama administration, but they're actually rather expensive to dismantle, since we were trying to recycle the plutonium for use in energy production. Go figure. It was also dependent on treaties Obama negotiated with Putin where we were both shrinking our arsenals.
People tend to forget, but nuclear reduction was a major goal of Obama's, and he actually made some progress.