It's like the old adage goes, you can never have enough nuclear bombs.
Until now, the nation has depended on carefully maintaining aging bombs produced during the Cold War arms race, some several decades old. The administration, however, wants the capability to turn out 125 new nuclear bombs per year by 2022, as the Pentagon retires older bombs that it says will no longer be reliable or safe.
So let me get this straight. The U.S. runs around like a nagging housewife bitching about everyone else's nuclear capabilities, and meanwhile, it's hatching plans to produce enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world many times over?
Got it.
By the way, how many nuclear bombs do we need? 125 per year? Really? That's a bit over-zealous, no? I don't get it. I'm no nuclear physicist, but I'm assuming it wouldn't take more than a handful - if that even - to completely bring a country to its knees. Am I wrong here? So what could we possibly do with hundreds of nuclear bombs?
