A static display of intercontinental ballistic missiles at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., front gate the evening of April 4, 2012. From left are the Peacekeeper, the Minuteman III and the Minuteman I. The planet Venus is visible in the sky above the Minuteman missiles and Jupiter is visible to the left of the Minuteman I. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Defense One: $264B for ICBMs That Would Be Destroyed in the Ground? No, Thanks
Creating a spiffy new “nuclear sponge” makes neither fiscal nor strategic sense.
The Biden administration is spending trillions of dollars to address the most pressing challenges we face, such as the pandemic, aging infrastructure and climate change.
And the more the administration spends, the more the public has a right to ask where this money will come from.
So far, President Biden is planning to pay for new spending by increasing the national debt and new taxes on corporations.
We humbly suggest that the administration consider an additional approach: cancelling new nuclear weapons that we do not need.
The Pentagon is planning to spend $264 billion on a new fleet of 600 land-based nuclear missiles, known as ICBMs.
This is just part of a trillion-dollar program to rebuild the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, including new submarines, bombers, and warheads.
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WNU Editor: The Pentagon wants its land-based nuclear force to be modernize. This modernization request also has a lot of political support. My prediction. It will be built, and it will probably cost more than the $264 billion budget that is being floated around.
3 comments:
Land based missiles are always be vulnerable....and dangerous because we have to trigger them for not losing it, even the alert was wrong.
Airbases are huge targets for hypersonic missiles and sabotage. Airwings go down for stupid reasons. Subs can't hide. Missiles look good now. Russians and Chinese have more mobile missiles. Americans not so much they have Carter and the Democrats.
One thing id argue is to upgrade these systems, you need to document the current systems inplace. And we are talking about thousands of land based missiles that no one really has any informantion on because of the age inwhich they were implemented. To moderize it, you need to highlight what you have, your capabilties and your weaknesses. In the age of 2020 there are no secrets, the entire world would know everything you do so any upgrade would have to be done with another of thought because by enlarge you should expect that tech to be leaked and shared with the likes of China and Russia.
Its a secruity concern for sure, upgrading your own rockets as it just takes 1 leak and now everyone has your rockets and so starts an arms race.
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