asok ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Michael Baier <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
: news:<[log in to unmask]>...
: > Chuck, you are right about that.
: > They don't have the money but definetly this guy is full of it.
: >
: > I have not heard so much bull from 1 guy in 1 day in a long time.
: > There is more to a super-power than having nuclear weapons.
: > I for myself think, as long as people die of hunger in India and Pakistan
: > and they ask the rest of the world for help, they are a 3rd world and not
: > a super-power.
: > The rest of the world should not help them unless they destroy their
: > nuclear weapons.
: > But those are my thoughts.
: > ...skip...
:
:  Well..It looks like you are still suffering  the hangover
: from the "US-The Superpower" party which came to an abrupt end
: on May,11th 1998.

Why didn't it come to an end when France or Israel added nuclear
weapons to their arsenals ?

  The current strategic picture of the world is much more complex
: than you will imagine. For example it may very well be that the only
: force preventing Pakistan from making a mince meat out of US
: is India's nuclear force.
:

If any country managed to "make mincemeat" out of the U.S., it would
still have to contend with the 18 nuclear submarines each carrying
24 missiles. Those 18 submarines carry 50% of the total U.S. warheads:

   http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-ssbn.html
   Navy Fact File: Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines

How many nuclear missile submarines does India and Pakistan have ?


--Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
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