“The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk.”

  • @Chocrates
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    -15 days ago

    To be fair, Trump is in Putin’s pocket, so I don’t think we need the deterrent from that front. There are lots of other nuclear powers that are mad at us now though. Europe (France at least) has nukes and they are not happy with us.

    Pretty sure China has them too.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 days ago

      You… what? That’s not… this is not how nuclear deterrence works.

      You don’t need a deterrence against France because they’re “mad at you”, what the hell. And yeah, China does have nuclear weapons, and yes, they and Russia are your primary concerns even though Trump is in Putin’s pocket to some degree

      • @Chocrates
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        05 days ago

        I’m saying that Russian and US relations at the top are good enough such that we won’t go to nuclear war with Russian. Sorry if I was confusing or inaccurate