keeblercrumb
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Today....at a ceremony in the middle of Russia on an otherwise cold and rainy day, the last bolt was removed from the last SS-24 ICBM in existence. A mixture of US and Russia Government representatives and contractors witnessed the event and I thought it might you make you feel a little better about this world to know about it.
The SS-24 was a three stage Intercontinental Range missile which carried 10 independently guided 1 megaton nuclear warheads. There were 56 missiles in the Russian arsenal... they were mounted both in silo's and on perpetually moving railcars and could be launched on 10 minute's notice. Five years ago, they were all actively deployed throughout Russia.
It was the system which was deployed in the late 1970's and most terrified the US and led to the “last’ US escalation of the "Peacekeeper" missiles and other nuclear weapon delivery systems such as the B-1 bomber..
The elimination of these and other Russian systems was only possible in post-USSR Russia as a result of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act, perhaps the wisest use of US money in the last 15 years.
There are thousands of warheads still deployed on both sides; most on immediate launch capability.
Do you remember when War World III was a "when" and not an "if"? Building a bomb shelter in your home was considered a prudent thing to do by any concerned parent?
I do. It may be yet again.
This program is in danger of ending, as a result of both the US and Russian attitudes and politics. We cannot afford to piss away the “peace’ dividend; easily Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s greatest legacy.
A one megaton nuclear warhead is capable of killing some one million people.
56,000,000 people (mostly Americans) were spared potential annihilation today.
By this bolt in time.
Just wanted you to know.
-KC
The SS-24 was a three stage Intercontinental Range missile which carried 10 independently guided 1 megaton nuclear warheads. There were 56 missiles in the Russian arsenal... they were mounted both in silo's and on perpetually moving railcars and could be launched on 10 minute's notice. Five years ago, they were all actively deployed throughout Russia.
It was the system which was deployed in the late 1970's and most terrified the US and led to the “last’ US escalation of the "Peacekeeper" missiles and other nuclear weapon delivery systems such as the B-1 bomber..
The elimination of these and other Russian systems was only possible in post-USSR Russia as a result of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act, perhaps the wisest use of US money in the last 15 years.
There are thousands of warheads still deployed on both sides; most on immediate launch capability.
Do you remember when War World III was a "when" and not an "if"? Building a bomb shelter in your home was considered a prudent thing to do by any concerned parent?
I do. It may be yet again.
This program is in danger of ending, as a result of both the US and Russian attitudes and politics. We cannot afford to piss away the “peace’ dividend; easily Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s greatest legacy.
A one megaton nuclear warhead is capable of killing some one million people.
56,000,000 people (mostly Americans) were spared potential annihilation today.
By this bolt in time.
Just wanted you to know.
-KC
