Sarah Paine
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The problem is how do you measure it, right?
And they're just going to measure it by weight or something else.
It doesn't really capture what they're getting.
That's true.
But there's a real coercive piece, too, is if you mess with them, it'll be really ugly.
I don't know the answer, but I've read the, you read the plans about these things, and you wonder what people are thinking.
Like, we were trying to develop tactical nukes.
There was only a little trick with that, that whoever deployed it would be within the blast range of the tactical.
nuke and you're going, oh, who develops a weapon like that?
Apparently we did.
Luckily we didn't deploy it.
I don't know the answer of why we had such massive redundancy in these nuclear weapons, why the arsenals were so massive.
I don't know the story on how you maintain these things and how long they last and
It doesn't make much more sense to me than it does to you.
Well, A, I have real problems with the statistics.
And I can only... This is... I got a... What is it?
Sample size of one.
So, I remember living in Moscow.
It was so backwards.