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goddamnedfrank8/12/2019 4:01:01 pm PDT

re: #199 Targetpractice

Simple answer? Range. A nuclear ramjet can be kept in the air indefinitely, meaning you could launch it from a spot that early-warning satellites don’t routinely monitor, send it on a winding path that bypasses air-defense radars, and then attack multiple targets before your enemy even realizes what the hell is going on. It’s a purely first-strike weapon, which is why the McNamara-era DOD axed it once the reality that the Soviets would develop their own put MAD in danger.

I guess there’s a perverse logic to that but any advantage would be ephemeral when you factor in the inevitable reprisal from enemy submarines.

re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🎃

The point is to make the target area uninhabitable permanently.

That’s guaranteed already with existing weapons.