Comments on: No-Nukes Makes a Nervous World http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/12/30/no-nukes-makes-a-nervous-world/ A First Things Blog Wed, 22 May 2013 01:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/12/30/no-nukes-makes-a-nervous-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6465 John Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:25:34 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=11018#comment-6465 The only sure thing right now is that the US is on track to unilaterally disarm while Russia and China continue to modernize their nuclear arsenals and delivery systems.

Case in point: we de-commissioned the MX and are slowly de-commissioning the remaining Minuteman III missiles and not replacing them. Their warheads are getting old…. if we don’t build new ones, the old ones will have to be decommisioned too.

But we’ve ceased building new warheads. The factory has been shut down. The engineers who built these bombs have all retired and many have died, taking many secrets and techniques of manufacturing with them.

So…. if Obama wins in 2012 it’s entirely possible that we’ll be faced with a nuclear force that’s half the size of current and on fast track to be mothballed after 2020 while everyone else has a brand new arsenal with brand new delivery systems.

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