Tuesday January 27, 2009, 2:24 pm
With the technology that is available topday, there is no valid reason for nuclear weapons. Einstein and all of his fellow scientists enjoined themselves into the production of the bomb because Hitler allegedly (probably) already had, or was close to it, the technology to blos the US up. What? Could it be that our government lied to these scientists?
Whatever happened to the acclaimed neutron bomb? Destroy people, not the infrastructure on this one, if I remember correctly!

Tuesday January 27, 2009, 7:19 pm
When we all have enough to blow up or at least ruin a major portion of the earth what more do we need. This is not like the next generation of a video game it's blood and guts of real people we are dealing with. Stop the foolishness. Obama if you want the truth, get out of Washington and meet the real folks.

Wednesday January 28, 2009, 3:21 am
Noted. I agree Morgan but he has to sort out the rubbish left behind first.

Wednesday January 28, 2009, 12:49 pm
"Today's nuclear nightmare tends to focus less on a doomsday exchange with similarly armed rival states than on the nightmare of "loose nukes" falling into the hands of terrorists unaligned with any state and therefore beyond the reach of deterrence. A new batch of nuclear weapons, unfortunately, isn't going to change that."

Who cares how many nukes you have sitting in bunkers, when a dirty bomb goes off inside a major US city? That is what we need to work on.. The only way to assure that is to safely control and/or eliminate all nuclear materials, including medical stuff, so it does not fall into terrorist hands.

Wake up!!! MAD is not the worst thing that can happen.. One nuke exploded at high altitude in the middle of the US can wipe out our entire electric grid, all electronics, and put us back into the stone age...

The least of our worries is how MANY nukes we have or whether they work... Personally I could care less. We have enough to destroy the world five times over...

How about some common sense, instead of more bombs, more bombs, more bombs?

Monday December 3, 2012, 2:52 pm
Here is a problem that I think was insufficiently explored in the article:
http://depletedcranium.com/do-our-nuclear-weapons-work/

The Reliable Replacement Warhead is not meant to institute greater MAD. It is intended as a long-term cost-cutting measure. It is meant to replace, not supplement, the existing arsenal.

Wednesday December 12, 2012, 2:50 am
Bush was heavily into bombs, obsessed with bunker-busters and things.

Some of these were, I believe, abandoned; at least I recall signing things and seem to recall reading about the Union of Concerned Scientists efforts in that direction, although at nearly 5 AM, all bets are off on my memory being accurate.

But weren't there some built quite (relatively) recently?

As others have asked, aren't there enough, already?

Especially since they're grossly destructive, shouldn't be used at all, and, I'd think, outdated technology...

Friday December 14, 2012, 9:06 am
Nuclear is a total loss in power and weapons and should be abandoned. the power cost more energy to produce than it makes. We will never use the weapons.

Wednesday January 2, 2013, 5:36 pm
Kim Jong Un might as well be holding a pistol and staring down the barrel of a howitzer, that is the disparity of destructive power between North Korea and the USA

Saturday February 23, 2013, 1:22 pm
As long as other countries with idiots at the red button America needs the Nuclear arsenal. How many, we all talk that all the nukes America has are located so they can be used on one country or in one place. Not true, until we understand how many America has in various silos, and their response time, and all where all the nuclear missels are in world are located and the systems that they can be delivered by are identifed, then we really do not have much to say about America's nuclear weapons. America has in the past used the arsenal to hold the Soviet Union at bay, but even then it did not as when Krushev sent the four out dated submarines to protect the freighter delivering the materials for delivery to Cuba, the Captains had secret orders to use their nuclear tip torpedos when they got into trouble. We owe a graditude of thank to a US Destroyer commander for being brave enough and having enough common sense to help one of the disabled Russian Submarines and that Captain passed the word to not use the Nuclear weapon. If Russia was about to use the weapon, you think Iran, Pakistan or North Korea would not? I hope we are not so dumb to think those counrtries would fight with gloves.
I say leave the decision of how many and where they are located up to the Military staff, not the hot headed child we have placed in out White House as he will get us all killed.