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US ICBM Launch Center Virtual Tour
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#12If you ever happen to be in Arizona, I highly recommend that you visit the Titan Missile Museum: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/
The site has been carefully maintained and the tour brings you up close to places that only a select few were able to see when they were in operation.
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#13The one in Arizona was better and even more better with the top to bottom tour before it flooded.
Did it flood recently? I was there only a few months ago. I also checked the site and it looks like they are still giving tours?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US has 400 land-based nuclear weapons, not thousands upon thousands. They're there to be a better thing for our enemies to aim at than our cities.
According to this [0] the number of warheads as of 2020 is 3750 which does kind of qualify as "thousands upon thousands". Edit: I don't think it matters if "only" 400 are land-based, does it? it's still "thousands". [0] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Fact-Sheet_...
There's MIRV, so depends what you mean by "these things".
But also some among these 3750 are in subs, and bombers.
And as for "100 would do": Well, if they all hit their targets, maybe. But part of the reason for overkill is so that even a sneak attack that's 90% successful should trigger MAD. Well, I say "should", but more like that's the cold logical deterrence rationale.
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#15It made for a great movie opening ("Wargames", 1983): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6aCpS0-yls (Don't worry; that guy went on to be White House Chief of Staff.)
TURN YOUR KEY CAPTAIN! Love Wargames for all it's goofy hacker nonsense.
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#16The pink bunny slipper in the military satchel does it for me.
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#17This video shows a bit more in action step by step:
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#18If you ever happen to be in Arizona, I highly recommend that you visit the Titan Missile Museum: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/ The site has been carefully maintained and the tour brings you up close to places that only a select few were able to see when they were in operation.
Agreed! I just visited just over a week ago for the first time. It's very interesting to see it firsthand and hear about how it all worked. At the same time, it was very sobering and frightening to think about what would happen if these things were used in anger.
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#19Whenever I see things like this I think it's so cool, but it's always followed by this weird feeling that lasts a few hours where all I can think about is, "What have we done?" Why does destruction come to easy to us? Why has it always been a prioirty?
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#20This video shows a bit more in action step by step: https://youtu.be/HWZXinRwCaE?feature=shared
That looks like a much later system.
I'm surprised that "pop-up menu" was a part of this particular interaction scenario. But much of the rest of the UI looks more like what I would've guessed.