When Does "It" Happen? Sooner Than You Think. - From BioClandestine on Substack
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I'm with you 100%.
I worded that roughly, hypersonic parity ensuring MAD, and or alternative ways to defeat incoming HS-ICBMs.
Everyone's calculating absorbing that first strike, think anyone in the northern hemisphere above ground will survive? (Not that I'm a ICBM guy, but with the little I do know Russia has some real monsters)
Mutually assured destruction no longer applies, they're counting on assured destruction?
In your opinion, why haven't they started lobbing nukes yet if they have already written off the northern hemisphere?
500 million left alive, I'm dialed into the mass murder.
I'm with you 100%
tks for offering finer edges to these points.
Absorbing the first strike (against military targets primarily) with a survivable retaliatory capability has been U.S. strategic posture since the 1960s with Gen. Curtis LeMay. The Russians have no use for Mutual Assured Destruction; they are interested in a counter-military strike. Their metric is the "correlation of forces," which is how they stand vs. the U.S. after the first exchange. There are not enough nuclear weapons in either arsenal to threaten more than 20% of each other's population, even if we wanted to. Too many small targets. Don't confuse Russian practical strategy with U.S. melodrama fantasies of total destruction.