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Originally Posted by Platapus
So how many nukes do we need? - all of them appears to be the answer. The good news is that maintaining nukes is relatively inexpensive. It is maintaining the delivery systems for the nukes that costs mega bucks.
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I did the math once and found that we could have two and half Polaris nuclear missiles complete with warheads for the price of 1 F-22 Raptor (inflation adjusted to be equal).
The price savings for nuclear weapons is
huge. Honestly I could see the world's militaries arming a lot of platforms with sub-kiloton nuclear warheads; specifically fighters.