Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] cost of maintaining unneeded weapons

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Um..  all our intelligence was to the contrary.... not to mention the 
fact that the USSR claimed to have them and went ahead and let tensions 
build to breaking point over various issue with never fold because the 
US dared to call its bluff.

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
>
> > I've always loved the fact that when the mutual inspection teams went 
> > to US Silos to verify disarmament, they always found pristine well 
> > cared for equipment, and when they went to the counterpart USSR silos 
> > that had kept us pinned down for a decade or two they found the 
> > things flooded with rain water and snow-melt.  The horribly corroding 
> > liquid propellant fuel they used had not been kept from destroying 
> > the installations.  In short, very few if any of their birds could 
> > have even approached the US.
>
> Which makes you wonder why we were concerned for so many years about 
> the missile gap and competing with them.  They were not even close to 
> us, but fear helps to sell bombs and somebody had bombs for sale.
>
> Mike
>
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