Well, there's the trick - we 'de-activated' them in 2005. Buuuuut - there's a company using the boosters for private launches, and I 'think' (I'd have to double check) - the warheads are the same used in the MMIIIs. So it's 'possible' if there's any rolling stock left, it 'could' be re-activated.
That isn't eactly ready-standby tho.
Now President Trump included a nuke update (so did Bush), so there may be some under wraps stuff I'm unaware of. Cold war budgets were so large most massive nuke programs were visible. Plus that's the whole point of a deterrent. Letting the other side know what horrors await. See Dr. Strangelove for more info
Oh btw - there is a doomsday machine in the former Soviet Union. It was activated in the 80s and hasn't been decommissioned. It's called Perimeter - the difference between it and the Strangelove device is it does have a human in the command chain - but not many (note wikipedia cites it being active in 2008, but the more accurate term would be declassified).
I could TL:DR you to death on all the cool cold war toys because my father worked on no fewer than 3 of them (Atlas, Nike-Zeus, and Titan II before going into civilian, NASA, and FAA aerospace). But if you have the time I can talk your ears off on all the places you'll glow!
Well, there's the trick - we 'de-activated' them in 2005. Buuuuut - there's a company using the boosters for private launches, and I 'think' (I'd have to double check) - the warheads are the same used in the MMIIIs. So it's 'possible' if there's any rolling stock left, it 'could' be re-activated.
That isn't eactly ready-standby tho.
Now President Trump included a nuke update (so did Bush), so there may be some under wraps stuff I'm unaware of. Cold war budgets were so large most massive nuke programs were visible. Plus that's the whole point of a deterrent. Letting the other side know what horrors await. See Dr. Strangelove for more info
Oh btw - there is a doomsday machine in the former Soviet Union. It was activated in the 80s and hasn't been decommissioned. It's called Perimeter - the difference between it and the Strangelove device is it does have a human in the command chain - but not many (note wikipedia cites it being active in 2008, but the more accurate term would be declassified).
I could TL:DR you to death on all the cool cold war toys because my father worked on no fewer than 3 of them (Atlas, Nike-Zeus, and Titan II before going into civilian, NASA, and FAA aerospace). But if you have the time I can talk your ears off on all the places you'll glow!
Well, there's the trick - we 'de-activated' them in 2005. Buuuuut - there's a company using the boosters for private launches, and I 'think' (I'd have to double check) - the warheads are the same used in the MMIIIs. So it's 'possible' if there's any rolling stock left, it 'could' be re-activated.
That isn't eactly ready-standby tho.
Now President Trump included a nuke update (so did Bush), so there may be some under wraps stuff I'm unaware of. Cold war budgets were so large most massive nuke programs were visible. Plus that's the whole point of a deterrent. Letting the other side know what horrors await. See Dr. Strangelove for more info
Oh btw - there is a doomsday machine in the former Soviet Union. It was activated in the 80s and hasn't been decommissioned. It's called Perimeter - the difference between it and the Strangelove device is it does have a human in the command chain - but not many (note wikipedia cites it being active in 2008, but the more accurate term would be declassified).