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** Played straight in that the movie completely ignored the existence of the nuclear triad - given the tactical situation, it would have made far more sense to use a land-based silo for a retaliatory launch or a Stealth bomber for a pre-emptive strike. |
** Played straight in that the movie completely ignored the existence of the nuclear triad - given the tactical situation, it would have made far more sense to use a land-based silo for a retaliatory launch or a Stealth bomber for a pre-emptive strike. |
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** For that matter, given that the Russian missiles in question are being fueled and prepped for launch by a general who's gone rogue, why aren't the ''Russians'' already nuking him? They're far closer to the spot marked X than we are, have an equally vested interest in not letting some psychopath unilaterally start World War III, and have a fine selection of tactical nuclear warhead options mounted on various delivery systems. |
** For that matter, given that the Russian missiles in question are being fueled and prepped for launch by a general who's gone rogue, why aren't the ''Russians'' already nuking him? They're far closer to the spot marked X than we are, have an equally vested interest in not letting some psychopath unilaterally start World War III, and have a fine selection of tactical nuclear warhead options mounted on various delivery systems. |
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*** In addition to the fact that firing the nuke themselves allows the Russians far more control over where its actually going to land than by trusting ''us'' to |
*** In addition to the fact that firing the nuke themselves allows the Russians far more control over where its actually going to land than by trusting ''us'' to shoot one towards Russian territory. I mean, fuck, we'd hardly trust the Russians to do it if the situation was reversed and Russian institutional paranoia makes US institutional paranoia look tame. |
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*** You'd think 'Some rebel psycho has just stolen one of my strategic missiles bases and is an unknown number of hours away from being launch ready, and there is a nontrivial possibility he'll just start flipping them around at random once he is' is a situation that would result in a quick conference call between the heads of state for all the UN Security Council permanent member nations, immediately followed by General Insano's eating a nuclear strike from whichever nation was in best position to deliver one first. |
*** You'd think 'Some rebel psycho has just stolen one of my strategic missiles bases and is an unknown number of hours away from being launch ready, and there is a nontrivial possibility he'll just start flipping them around at random once he is' is a situation that would result in a quick conference call between the heads of state for all the UN Security Council permanent member nations, immediately followed by General Insano's eating a nuclear strike from whichever nation was in best position to deliver one first. |
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* [[Peace Through Superior Firepower]] - "We're going over there, and bringing the most lethal killing machine ever devised. We're capable of launching more firepower than has ever been released in the history of war. For one purpose alone: to keep our country safe." |
* [[Peace Through Superior Firepower]] - "We're going over there, and bringing the most lethal killing machine ever devised. We're capable of launching more firepower than has ever been released in the history of war. For one purpose alone: to keep our country safe." |
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