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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (560641)4/14/2010 12:15:48 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1578204
 
"but the details are always uncertain. "

Well, duh. So the rational thing is to promote policies which reduce the uncertainties and, hence, the risk. For the foreseeable future, tossing ICBMs over the poles against Russia is not on the table. It is hard to envision any scenario that plays out that way. For large scale exchanges, the next crisis point is sometime in the mid-2020s. And then the actors are probably China and/or India, possibly allied with a resurgent Russia. But that is, at best, speculation.

So strategic nukes are a cost with very little payoff. Reducing, but not eliminating them, only makes sense. Which is what was done, albeit the reduction was small.
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