Sunday, January 24, 2016

Will Obama return his Nobel Peace Prize?

I guess Obama is worried that we don't have enough nuclear weapons. We only have close to 5,000. He wants to increase this capacity by 1,000 new missiles with adjustable nuclear capacity, 100 new long-range bombers, and a new fleet of nuclear-armed submarines. If he does, it can only begin another nuclear arms race. This time China will be in the race.

The adjustable nuclear capacity means that the missiles could be used to deliver either conventional or nuclear payloads. If an air defense controller in another country sees one incoming on radar, he or she would have no way of knowing whether it was armed to destroy a building or an entire city. The temptation to launch nuclear retaliation could be irresistible.


Besides costing us about a trillion dollars, more nuclear weapons increases the possibility that one will fall into the hands of terrorists.

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