Cunning as Zeus
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I'm not going to address any of the posts in this thread about Osama and the implications of his death because the vast majority of you have no idea what you're talking about, but I will say that nuclear weapons have their place in the world. While the US has close to around 5100 nuclear warheads, only 2200 of them are active, and that number is going to drop to 1550 relatively soon. They are not an offensive weapon. They serve only as a deterrent, and one that's worked out pretty well for just about everyone. Because, you know, we're not the only goddamn nation with nukes. As you stated, they attack us, we attack them, we attack them and they attack us. It keeps the checkbook balanced. Number of nations bombed with nukes since WW2? Yeah, zero. Even at the brink of a full-scale war between the US and Russia, the idea of total annihilation put too much of a bad taste in everyones' mouths to actually use them. I'm going to go ahead and say the States are probably the safest place for nukes.
But if you want to talk about accountability and lack of procedure, you should probably be focusing your attention on Russia, who has more nukes than we do, and was responsible for "losing" all types of SNM and "accessories" after the fall of the USSR, a lot of which fell on the US and its allies to reclaim. But, you know, that's rarely part of the narrative so we don't talk about it.
But if you want to talk about accountability and lack of procedure, you should probably be focusing your attention on Russia, who has more nukes than we do, and was responsible for "losing" all types of SNM and "accessories" after the fall of the USSR, a lot of which fell on the US and its allies to reclaim. But, you know, that's rarely part of the narrative so we don't talk about it.