A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks::A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It marks the largest cultural shift in 60 years in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission.

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    10 months ago

    The fact that humanity needs the threat of nukes to maintain peace, says a lot of the disparity between the advancements of our technology and the limitations of our own primitive mentality.

    I wish we were more like Star Fleet.

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      10 months ago

      Last time I watched star trek high I almost cried… it’s not fair!!! That could be us but the capitalist scum playin with our lives instead.

      Best the world’s oligarch trash can do is the ferengi alliance (the TNG version, not ds9)

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        10 months ago

        Why do you think WW3 would finally inspire us to stop killing eachother? What makes you think there will be anything left?

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          Haven’t you watched Star Trek first contact? They talked about WW3 destroying governments so Cochrane built a Star Ship from an old ICBM with warp drives. Once they go faster than light, Vulcuns visit us and boom… We’re a space exploring species. Peace ensues.

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      10 months ago

      Oh good, we just have to rely on an alien intervention after we break the laws of physics in a controlled manner, in the aftermath of a devastating conflict.