Playing games with U.S. security

Posted by Matt in July 2nd, 2008

Obama’s feel-good approach puts nuclear deterrent at risk

More worrisome, Mr. Obama has called for de-alerting all of our 450 Minuteman III missiles - taking their warheads off and putting them in storage. This would effectively eliminate this critically important leg of our nuclear Triad. It would make it useless in a crisis, as it would take months to put even a few warheads back on alert. Thus we would be placing our entire security on the safety of our few submarines routinely at sea, having effectively eliminated hundreds of ICBMs capable of retaliation. In addition, is the senator saying he doesn’t trust himself to positively control our Minuteman missiles and to avoid the temptation to fire them he is going to basically make them inoperable?

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