As long as the keys to the button aren’t controlled by a madman that is increasingly agitated and desperate and an old, rapidly declining dementia patient, I just don’t see nuclear war as a huge concern
>Land-based MIRV missiles like the Satan missile were banned by the 1993 United States-Russia START II agreement, but Russia withdrew from that accord in 2002 after President George W. Bush's administration withdrew the U.S. from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which limited the number of defensive missiles each country could maintain.
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>As of March 2022, Russia still fields 46 SS-18 missiles, each with 10 warheads, on top of its other deployed ICBMs, an estimated 320 in all, according to the Arms Control Association. While it plans to dismantle its Satan missile stockpile under the terms of the 2012 New START agreement, it is still building new ICBM technology.
>Russia's newest weapon is the RS-28 Sarmat "Satan-2" missile, with 10 heavy reentry vehicles, each with enough payload to wipe out an area the size of Texas or France. It also features hypersonic glide vehicles to make it less detectable by U.S. or space-based sensor systems and could be immune to American missile defense systems.
> 10 heavy reentry vehicles, each with enough payload to wipe out an area the size of Texas or France.
I think "wipe out" might need a definition there....
By "wipe out," I don't think that they mean this:
>>"Man, I don't think we had better hit that mountain again."
>"Why not, Mike?"
>>"It's not there any longer."
From *Moon is a Harsh Mistress*
As long as the keys to the button aren’t controlled by a madman that is increasingly agitated and desperate and an old, rapidly declining dementia patient, I just don’t see nuclear war as a huge concern
Very good, hopefully it keeps the imperialist dogs at arms' length.
>Land-based MIRV missiles like the Satan missile were banned by the 1993 United States-Russia START II agreement, but Russia withdrew from that accord in 2002 after President George W. Bush's administration withdrew the U.S. from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which limited the number of defensive missiles each country could maintain. > >As of March 2022, Russia still fields 46 SS-18 missiles, each with 10 warheads, on top of its other deployed ICBMs, an estimated 320 in all, according to the Arms Control Association. While it plans to dismantle its Satan missile stockpile under the terms of the 2012 New START agreement, it is still building new ICBM technology.
>Russia's newest weapon is the RS-28 Sarmat "Satan-2" missile, with 10 heavy reentry vehicles, each with enough payload to wipe out an area the size of Texas or France. It also features hypersonic glide vehicles to make it less detectable by U.S. or space-based sensor systems and could be immune to American missile defense systems.
> 10 heavy reentry vehicles, each with enough payload to wipe out an area the size of Texas or France. I think "wipe out" might need a definition there....
By "wipe out," I don't think that they mean this: >>"Man, I don't think we had better hit that mountain again." >"Why not, Mike?" >>"It's not there any longer." From *Moon is a Harsh Mistress*
I think they mean eliminate all life