01-16-2004, 10:08 PM
Actually, the strategic value of having lunar-based nuclear weapons would be that their placement there could partially circumvent the tenets of Mutually Assured Destruction - which is one of the foundation stones of our entire defensive strategy. It has nothing to do with nukes being "safe to use" - I believe most nukes are actually exempt from the "Hey, you can't use that thing, you might hurt babies!" kind of issues that are we attach to the use of, say, mattress tags.
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(The difficulty of building an accurate launch and delivery system would be harder to overcome, but I don't think people who already had the technology to build a permanent base on the moon would find the challenge insurmountable.)
And yes, it's all currently just ridiculous science fiction - just like manned moon bases, manned voyages to Mars, and a reusable shuttlecraft that doesn't blow up ~1% of the time. :blink:
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(The difficulty of building an accurate launch and delivery system would be harder to overcome, but I don't think people who already had the technology to build a permanent base on the moon would find the challenge insurmountable.)
And yes, it's all currently just ridiculous science fiction - just like manned moon bases, manned voyages to Mars, and a reusable shuttlecraft that doesn't blow up ~1% of the time. :blink: