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November 25, 2015
The nine known nuclear powers have collectively manufactured approximately 100,000 warheads.
Most are secure and accounted for, but many are not, and no reliable warhead inventory exists among the established nuclear-weapons states, rogue aspirants, shoe-box countries, and terrorist groups. Untracked fissionable material from the former Soviet Union alone would be enough for the construction of a large number of weapons, and—legitimately or otherwise—new fissile material is created every day. Almost half a century ago, Israel, with a GNP of $3.3 billion and a population of two and a half million, created a nuclear weapon even before it produced its own jet aircraft. Were certain and universal abolition to be achieved, it could be secretly negated by manufacture. And as for covert retention, an average American house is big enough to hold an arsenal sufficient to control an otherwise nuclear-disarmed world. CRB | Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again, by Mark Helprin
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 25, 2015 8:50 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I think that the idea of Narcissistic man/child having access to The nuclear football is way scarier than Putin on deck of the missile cruiser Moskva. Wait until Bamby figures out the world has been laughing at him to his face and he has been nothing but a useful idiot all this time.
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at November 26, 2015 6:42 AM