Why is it that the the human race always has to devise some new way to destroy itself, be it by a new technology that destroys or orverdevelops the planet, some ideological new movement that supports it, or some new nuclear or rocket powered weapon of mass destruction. This planet is supposedly improving everyday when all I see are new developments in order to further destroy it. We are losing this planet faster than we can reclaim it tell me I'm wrong please.
Your wrong. The main nuclear powers have vastly smaller arsenals then we did at the height of the cold War. The USA and Russia have about 1/6'th the strategically deliverable weapons as we both had at the hottest part of the Cold War. I was in USAF when we had 4 different classes of ICBMs alone. In fact I was at a base when a damn Titan-ll ICBM blew up.
Theater weapons are vastly cut down too. We once had thousands of nuclear artillery shells, IRBMs, cruise missiles, recoiless rifle nukes, nukes for air defense, nukes for submarine defense. We once had 2,500 Bombers tasked for nuclear attack. Many of them on hot pads and able to launch in just a few minutes. And who knows how many Jabos in Europe we had tasked for nuclear delivery with bombs like the B-61. It was awful, most of all to those who had to man and protect these assets.
Whatever North Korea or places like Iran do today it couldnt come close to the sheer destructive power the West and the Soviets pointed at each other back in the bad old days, along with BTW chem and Bio weapons. The main powers gave them up BTW as well and France and England only retain a nuclear option in small SLBM fleets.
Boy if you think today is bad you never saw the '60s, '70s, or '80s.
