Where our tax goes :(

[DodgyAgent]

There was no Arms Race before Reagan and Thatcher.

So why did Jimmy Carter agree the SALT treaties with the soviet Union?

[sasguru]

There was no Arms Race before Reagan and Thatcher.

Oh dear, Luce.

[wendigo100]

There was no Arms Race before Reagan and Thatcher.

I think you meant that there was no arms race AFTER Reagan and Thatcher.

[Sockpuppet]

FFS the cold war ended because of nuclear weapons, go and learn some history.

Do you really think it's a good idea to not maintain them when nutters like North Korea and Iran hold them ?

Actually the cold war started, middled and ended becuase of nukes. If there were no nukes it would have been a hot war.

Go learn some tactics

[Lucy]

Actually the cold war started, middled and ended becuase of nukes. If there were no nukes it would have been a hot war.

Go learn some tactics

The cold war started because post WW2 Stalin decided it was a good idea to force his evil empire upon Asia and Europe, ie the SU started rolling out it's communist states years before it tested it's nukes.

Nuclear wepons by and large 'kept the peace' in the global sense (excluding proxy wars etc).

I do know tactics. ta.

[Lucy]

So why did Jimmy Carter agree the SALT treaties with the soviet Union?

The SALT treaties were unverifiable. The SU did not reduce it's nuclear weapons effort at all during that period.

Carter, unlike Reagan, thought you could negotiate with an evil empire. Reagan decided tactically the US could beat them in an Arms Race (and did) !!!

[Lucy]

I can hardly believe we had this argument.

[Xenophon]

I can hardly believe we had this argument.

Um, that is an oldie.

[Lucy]

Um, that is an oldie.

I know I was looking for something else - it feels like a million years ago.

[Moscow Mule]

1) What is wrong with our current nuclear arsenal ?

They'll start leaking in a few years...