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Romney's Hit Piece on START: 'Thoroughly Ignorant'

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lostlakehiker7/07/2010 1:30:27 pm PDT

re: #57 Spare O’Lake

Does anyone happen to know how many of Russia’s existing 2,787 warheads are actually functional and serviceable? I ask this because I assume that all of America’s 2,252 warheads are in working order, so I question whether Russia has really agreed to give up anywhere close to 1,237 warheads (in terms of reducing warheads to 1,550), whereas the US is giving up 700.

The only way we’ll ever know that is the hard way. Same for ours. But odds are a good fraction of ours don’t work, and odds are a higher fraction of theirs don’t.

We don’t know how many of ours, or theirs, are bad. Let’s not find out.

Romney’s worst factual error is where he talks about how many ICBM’s Russia can mount on bombers. Nobody has yet been able to launch an ICBM from a bomber. A rocket that can carry a bomb halfway around the earth is heavy, and at the same time delicate. Not easy to put in, or under, a bomber.