The 5 states are Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota and Colorado.
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Read that as "New Sentient nuclear warhead"
I'll go against the grain as a liberal leftist and say 141 billion for upgrading our entire nuclear infrastructure in today's political climate seems like a deal.
No shit. Wasnt the f35 total lifetime costs supposed to exceed 2 trillion?
Less moving parts and associated personel in nuclear silos and a big bomb. Absolute steal.
That being said, war is bad. But nukes are M.A.D.
Healthcare please
The military spending isn't the reason y'all aren't getting healthcare. Nor is the cost of healthcare itself.
The current system costs the US government more than socialized medicine would. It's all about the lobbying.
Yes, and military lobbies govt so we are forced to join them to get healthcare
Given the state of modern software design and corporate greed I'm not sure this will end well
We can probably save a couple save a couple dozen billion by running it all on Windows XP
I'm fairly sure it will end more poorly than I can possibly imagine.
Military spending budget? Military spending goal
Defense Department Dimmadollars
I really hope they dont make enough to blow the whole planet again. Cold war quantity of nukes was absurd...unless Rodan shows up or something.
This isn't the program to produce more warheads. It's the program to update the missile force silos and rockets. Which was really needed.
Really needed for what exactly? To exterminate all life on the planet a few minutes faster?
As dumb as it sounds, mutually assured destruction does have the perk of keeping everyone from using nukes. If modern countermeasures prevent that, it isnt a deterrent anymore. Updating these nukes improves the likelihood we dont have to use them.
Relevant example: russias tanks. They are outdated and weren't adequately improved over decades. and are now getting wrecked by consumer grade drones and guys with while fancy, in all honesty, second grade hand me down rocket launchers. Before we knew this fact, they were a reasonable deterrent to not fucking with russia. Now, not so much.
Yeah I just mean we need to scale back What we update. Blowing the planet half way is enough.
You misunderstand, like a half dozen of the current high yield mirv ones could end most life on earth. This is just making them faster and as always the Pentagon lied and got caught.
My God, I certainly did. Such a pissing contest. Without threats like kaiju literally no reason to have this.
Well I mean it's not like there's hundreds of thousands of Americans with crippling food insecurity, no homes, no healthcare, inadequate wages, poisonous water, and/or gun violence; so the government is fine making sure it has the capacity it nearly exterminate the human race. Right guys?
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight Eisenhower
So as far as legislators are concerned, a win-win.
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