Davis Winkie
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first heard Jul 2026
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As for the land-based nuclear missiles specifically, their advantage is they are the fastest to deliver a nuclear strike.
You could send the order down to these missiles and within 30 minutes or so, you would see nuclear warheads striking anywhere in the world.
That kind of speed is not inherent to the other legs of the nuclear triad.
And nuclear strategists who support maintaining the land leg believe that maintaining that like prompt strike capability is incredibly important when it comes to deterring or discouraging bad behavior from adversaries around the world.
Opponents of maintaining these nuclear missiles argue that they make the world a more dangerous place.
That's because the U.S.
has what's called a launch on warning posture.
Essentially, it follows closely to what you might have seen in the Netflix movie A House of Dynamite recently.
That the United States detects an incoming enemy nuclear attack
It is in our doctrine to consider launching a massive response from our nuclear missile silos with the logic being we want to destroy an adversary's ability to hit us with more in case they haven't launched everything they plan to hit us with yet.
The idea there is damage limitation.
But opponents of these ICBMs say that the chance of a false alarm for an incoming attack makes the stakes really, really dangerous.
And because the speed of nuclear weapons can be measured in minutes, the amount of time that the president, who is the sole authority when it comes to nuclear strikes, is
has to make a decision on whether to retaliate with our ICBMs or not is a recipe for disaster, these opponents argue.
This is another front where your advocates and opponents very, very strongly diverge.
As you can imagine, nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament are two of the most polarized topics you can think of in the political landscape today.
When it comes to the number of Sentinels being more than 650, the floor for the amount of deployed missiles set by Congress for this program is 400.
And 650 is seen as the number of missiles that the Air Force needs to build in order to maintain a 400 missile deployment.
which would continue the current number of Minivan 3s that we have.
You need those extra missiles for things like testing, for things like extra parts, and then also to plan ahead for things like aging or maintenance issues, etc.
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