Do you agree with Donald Trump that starting a new nuclear arms race is prudent?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[spanone]

1. i agree he's out of his FUCKING MIND

[Cha]

4. +1

[1965Comet]

2. Waste of money from the guy who claims the government wastes too much money...

[madokie]

3. I guarantee you

I'm going to have a bowel movement shortly, I know more information that we all need, but bear with me. That has more brain cells in it than tRump has in his whole being.

My apologies to shit if I offended any

[ismnotwasm]

5. Hmmm....oh. No.

But I was musing on how many, you know, we actual NEED, and wonder how spending billions of dollars on a new Cold War is going to fly through congress--any congress

Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. government spent at least $8.8 trillion in present-day terms[6] on nuclear weapons, including platforms development (aircraft, rockets and facilities), command and control, maintenance, waste management and administrative costs.[7] It is estimated that, since 1945, the United States produced more than 70,000 nuclear warheads, which is more than all other nuclear weapon states combined. The Soviet Union/Russia has produced approximately 55,000 nuclear warheads since 1949, France built 1110 warheads since 1960, the United Kingdom built 835 warheads since 1952, China built about 600 warheads since 1964, and other nuclear powers built fewer than 500 warheads all together since they developed their first nuclear weapons.[8] Until November 1962, the vast majority of U.S. nuclear tests were aboveground. After the acceptance of the Partial Test Ban Treaty, all testing was relegated underground, in order to prevent the dispersion of nuclear fallout.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States


Another facinating set of information

http://gizmodo.com/5899569/how-many-nukes-would-it-take-to-blow-up-the-entire-planet

[Eugene]

6. Other: Hell F---ing No!

The Donald wants to pursue the madman strategy
with some guidance from Henry f---ing Kissinger.
What can possibly go wrong?

[FarCenter]

7. We still rely on the Minuteman III introduced in the '70, so we probably need modernization

At Monday night's debate, Republican candidate and businessman Donald Trump said "Russia has been expanding their" nuclear weapons, adding that "they have a much newer capability than we do."

But according to Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk, although Russia may have updated its missiles and warheads more recently, the idea that Moscow has better capabilities is "almost certainly not true."

On paper, newer, more complicated, more fearsome weapons comprise Russia's nuclear arsenal. Russia's RS-24 Yars Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), introduced in the mid 2000s, can strike anywhere in the US with what some report to be ten independently targetable nuclear warheads.

These ten warheads would reenter the earth's atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, around 5 miles a second. China has developed a similar platform, and the US simply has no way to defend against a salvo of such devastating nukes.

In comparison, the US's Minuteman III ICBM also reenters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, but carries just one warhead, and was introduced in the 1970s.

But the question of whose are better is more a philosophical one than a straight comparison of capabilities.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-vs-russia-nuclear-weapons-2016-9

[DLevine]

8. Not content with destroying our country, the idiot wants to destroy the world. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Yes.

Give this planet to the cockroaches. They'll do a better job with it.