On: Navy Sets World Record With Rail Gun

[icegreentea]

And wish nuclear death on yourself. You also already are developing that ability with Prompt Global Strike (essentially non-nuclear ICBMs).

I believe prompt global strike (and similar schemes) to be highly unstabalizing and to be avoided at all costs. The global suspicion (with a country with 2000k+ nukes none the less) would be suffocating. If the USA employed such a system, the moment you acted as anything less than a white knight, the world be up in arms. And justly. Your friends (the UK and Canada and Australia) would start edging away. And then you're truly fucked. (Canadian).

[berntb → icegreentea]

Reality check:

According to that logic, Canada should already have that attitude to the US, since most of their population is inside aircraft range...

[berntb → berntb]

Huh, why the minus votes? Is there anything wrong with the argument or is this political believers' reactions?

Airplanes [edit: and rocket artilleri, for that matter] in range is functionally the same thing as such a strike capacity, but cheaper.

There is no reaction from Canada and won't be; see the democratic peace theory.