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U.S. pulls out of Soviet-era nuclear missile pact with Russia
The United States formally withdrew from a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was in violation of the treaty, something the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
Washington signalled it would pull out of the arms control treaty six months ago unless Moscow stuck to the accord. Russia called the move a ploy to exit a pact the United States wanted to leave anyway in order to develop new missiles.
The 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was negotiated by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Previously: President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal
(Score: 2, Touché) by janrinok on Saturday August 03 2019, @07:37AM (7 children)
What a load of rubbish. I'm assuming that you think that this is humour?.
Defence is nothing to do with Brexit, and the French also have a nuclear arsenal and the ability to deliver it. Your understanding of nuclear warfare is also flawed. The threat is not whether you have more nuclear weapons than your enemy, but whether you can deliver sufficient warheads onto targets such that they make the enemy believe that the costs of a nuclear exchange would far outweigh the perceived gains. In the event of a nuclear strike on Europe, the UK and/or France would be forced to consider retaliation with the nuclear assets that they have available to them. So a small number of low yield nuclear weapons delivered by an enemy would result in a counter strike using potentially much more powerful nuclear weapons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @08:32AM (5 children)
To be fair, it does look like humour.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @08:47AM (2 children)
British nuclear forces also appear to be an attempt a humour, much like James Bond is compensation for the sun setting on the British Empire. But at least they have Nukes! More often than not, American Nukes, but Nukes nonetheless! Ah, blimey, to be a bloke on the brimey back in the day of the Pox Britannica! And French Nukes? Tested in Tahiti? Mere tropical bon-bons, I assure you.
(Score: 4, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Saturday August 03 2019, @04:00PM (1 child)
The kingdom paid a very high price [wikipedia.org] for her nuclear arsenal. I would not trivialize it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 04 2019, @06:20AM
Should have purchased from the Americans. They would have been happy to sell.
They love selling out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @08:52AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 04 2019, @06:12AM
My sense of humor was surgically extracted at a young age. While not a sociopath or psychopath my understanding of the world is far different from most. Bear with me.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday August 04 2019, @04:09AM
Even before the WWI it was clearly understood "that the costs of a
nuclear exchangewar would far outweigh the perceived gains".A very good economist wrote a 1000 pages book about it beaten the dead horse to the pulp.
https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Relation-Military-National-Advantage/dp/161203652X/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAjw4ZTqBRBZEiwAHHxpfozBPqYjBrJHQnSn3xDa5gXaxvP50uEYuuq5JqesGJwxX6hEQMCuSBoCreAQAvD_BwE&hvadid=241906565694&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9003587&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3017417085841332014&hvtargid=kwd-179905084120&hydadcr=22596_10348340&keywords=the+great+illusion+by+norman+angell&qid=1564891519&s=gateway&sr=8-1 [amazon.com]
Meantime other certain economists were saying that capitalism will always bring wars no matter the costs.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.