re: #288 Obdicut

Again: If you withdraw, you can’t simply cast ‘summon nuclear missile’ and have them appear. The treaty limits the number of warheads and active launchers. Withdrawing would mean you had to take time to build up again.

That part is true. Mainly what the treaty does is allow us to save a shitload of money, and to inspect Russian nuclear weapons. One of the benefits of this in the current time is that the Russians are, basically, run by ex-KGB and gangsters who are unpredictable and unscrupulous in the extreme. It is vitally important that we be able to track Russian warheads, both to prevent them being sold to an extremist group and to be able to verify simply that they’re being properly maintained.

no question…this is one of the most pressing international problem on the books and if the treaty breaks ground here then that’s a good thing, but if the Russians want to lose warheads they will do it regardless