President Obama is massively expanding U.S. Nuclear Weapons: (price tag: 1 trillion bucks)

[davidthegnome]

146. Seems like a bad time for it.

What the hell are we going to do with them? I understand the concept of mutually assured destruction - but we are already capable of fulfilling our part of the deal there. Modernizing these weapons is apparently going to cost an absolutely insane amount of money... for weapons that we all hope we'll never use. That, almost certainly, will never BE used. In a decade or two we will have to upgrade the upgrades, or upgrade the new weapons and carriers being made. That, or let them rot. There will always be a seemingly logical argument in favor of this kind of spending and weaponry... but it becomes ultimately illogical and even somewhat foolish when you consider two simple things.

1. If we use them, it could damn well trigger the end of the world.
2. We probably aren't going to use them unless we get a President who is eager for the end of days.

So we spend a fortune, more than a fortune, on all of this shit that will never be used, that, to even use, would be an act of insanity.

If anyone had asked me, I would say don't do it. I would say spend the bare minimum in money and in effort to keep the weapons usable - even that I hesitate over.... Beyond that... do we really need more world destroying weapons? Just because the Russians have them? They nuke us, we nuke them back! Everyone wins... or, uh... well, thousands and thousands of people die, then millions more freeze to death in nuclear winter. That's on the optimistic side.

A trillion dollars... enough money to implement a single payer health care system and insure everyone in America. Enough money to buy or build everyone a home. Enough money to feed everyone in America. Enough money to do so many great things... yet, we spend it on this insanity.

Did the events in Fukushima not teach us anything? What happens when a tornado hits a nuclear power plant? What happens when a massive earthquake shatters the damn thing? What about when so much nuclear waste is swallowed up by the ocean? How many nuclear fuel rods would it take to break the whole damn world?

This is indeed MAD. Through mutually assured destruction, we are almost inevitably assuring our own future destruction - possibly even that of the whole world. There are times when I wish I wasn't a human being. How can we even conceive of this mad shit?