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Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: [Dtiquips] Superpower no Longer?

23 Oct 09

Superpower no longer?

This from friend in the System:

"The Chinese and Russians, in contemptuous disregard for the endless string
 of treaties to which only the USA anally adheres, have been busy building,
and  openly testing, a new generation of Mobile ICBMs.  We have nothing
like  it!

Within a year or two, the US will be forced to retire its entire ICBM
fleet, because of age. We have no replacements, nor any ability to make new
ones.  We stopped building nuclear warheads in 1989, when Bush1 shut down
the
Rocky Flats Plant in CO.  In 1992, as a parting abomination upon his
Country, Bush1 unilaterally stopped all testing at the Nevada Test Site.
Tribal
knowledge in building nuclear weapons has since been almost entirely lost,
as
 the people who did it are long-since deceased or retired.

We've belatedly begun manufacturing some replacement triggers, but the
process is timid and slow. 'Readiness of the stockpile,' is now laughingly
'
verified' via dubious computer-simulations, so we're fat, dumb, and happy in
 the 'knowledge' of what 'should happen.'  When asked about 'readiness,'
we  continue to naively nod 'yes,' having no idea of what we're agreeing
to.   We don't really know if any of them will any longer work of not!

We used to make wonderfully elegant weapons, but as with our Saturn V and
the SR-71, we, as a civilization, literally no longer have the ability, nor
the  national will, to make such things.  As a civilization, we have stopped
 moving forward.  And, while we dither, our world enemies continue to
develop new and advanced weapons at a dizzying pace, weapons for which we
have
no equivalent.

We are rapidly being outclassed, and the subject is almost never
discussed.  Why have these facts have not been disseminated (they are out
there in
open literature)?  We all know why!

Naive, vain, guilt-ridden, technology-hating American Liberals naively
believe that our nuclear weapons are 'evil,' (everyone else's are apparently
okay!) and that we, as a nation, don't need them, just as they stupidly
believe  the same about land-mines."

Comment:  The current Administration, like the last three, apparently
couldn't care less!

And, lest we let Carter off the hook, he was the fool who unilaterally
decreed that we will not reprocess spent fuel.  Everyone else does!

The riddance of the USA as a world, military superpower, with accurate,
projectable, nuclear weapons, has been a wet-dream of Russia and China since
the  end of WWII.  We are currently doing virtually everything possible to
assist them in achieving that goal!

We don't need "enemies!"

"The Chinese and Russians, in contemptuous disregard for the endless string
 of treaties to which only the USA anally adheres, have been busy building,
and  openly testing, a new generation of Mobile ICBMs.  We have nothing
like  it!

"The Chinese and Russians, in contemptuous disregard for the endless
string
of treaties to which only the USA anally adheres, have been busy building,
and openly testing, a new generation of Mobile ICBMs. We have nothing
like it!