Is mutually assured destruction still a think?
If there was a rogue nuclear missile launch from a sub or a Russian silo, would America just take it? Or would we immediately strike back?
>Holy
>he thinks nukes are real and not a meme
>>1002455
>he thinks memes are real and not a meme
>or would we immediately strike back
As with 9/11, the people would demand blood and military membership would swell.
>Is MAD still a thing
I don't see why not, yeah.
>>1002467
MAD is not the first thing you said. MAD = immediately launching all the nukes if one is detected.
>>1002433
There are countermeasures in place to automatically retaliate without the need for a human to do anything. So, "we" wouldn't quite do it, but we wouldn't just take it either.
>>1002523
And those measures are? Complete and total war? A single nuke? Say more and give me a sauce damnit
>>1002534
Nobody knows. That is the tippest of toppest secrets.
>>1002534
Not that guy but command and control system is a complex multi-level one, one can't just launch a rogue nuclear missile like that. A single officer on duty can't just call for WW3 due to a glimmer on the radar either, by the way.
>>1002547
What about a confirmed nuclear strike on a major us city after tracking the missile to its target and having air confirmation of the missile?
>>1002545
Is it a consistent pentagon policy? Does it change with every president? Or does Congress ultimately decide the strategy? Someone must know that much at least.
>>1002534
Dead man's switches bro
>>1002571
Relics from the Cold War. It was kept secret so well that nobody alive today knows how to shut them off.
>>1002586
hehehe, well memed
>>1002586
that is terrifying
>>1002571
>>1002586
The US president has the nuclear launch codes.
The scariest thing is that the technology that keeps checks on these things hasn't been updated since the Cold War. On the bright side, it can't be hacked. On the dark side, accidents will become more likely 'till someone picks up the slack.
>>1002619
Sauce?
>>1002433
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_utilization_target_selection
Read this. We aren't mad anymore, we're nuts.
>>1003075
it's like that game kids play in school where they punch each other progressively harder until one decides they can't take any more
>>1002433
If you want a top-level source on current nuclear risk, William Perry, secretary of defense from the 90s, has been speaking on the subject lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7LQjNvfPmo
>>1002433
MAD is and always was a lie. If there was a launch, there would only be a proportional retaliation.
>>1002534
There's rumors that Russia's "Dead Hand" failsafe protocol is still active. It's rumored to have been an automatic retaliation strike against the US in the event that Russia had already been reduced to ruins.
We don't have enough nukes to destroy Russia, MAD is a meme.
>>1005309
The point isn't to have enough to destroy the entire country. You want enough that you can take out the majority of the other guy's warheads before he can do the same to you. Once you've destroyed enough of their warheads, you're effectively holding them at gunpoint.
>>1005309
Most of Russia is a cold wasteland so whatever.
MAD is a meme, Russia's nukes are rusted husks rotting away in abandoned silos and America hasn't had any new nuke designs since Nixon, come day X none of them would launch and politicians would solve the conflict diplomatically in great secret and shame
Is it true that MAD was only a NATO theory. That China and Russia both believed that after the initial nuclear strikes that a standard war would commence.
>>1007154
You think nukes are made of wood and left in a moldy basement to rot away?
idiot
>>1007167
They do have an expiration date, though, same as delivery means.
MIRVs are the fucking scariest weapon we've ever created. look at this shit
