Titan II ICBM, Launch Complex 571-7, Sahuarita, AZ, 2009.All the pixels, with none of the radioactive fallout, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/41#photography

Looking up from the bottom of a missile pointed up inside a cramped underground silo, which is lined with retractable platforms and various apparatus.
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

@mattblaze The illogic of nuclear deterrence has always amazed me.We're supposed to believe our adversaries will carefully and rationally weigh costs and benefits, and realize they will be destroyed by our nuclear retaliation, and therefore they must not attack us.Our adversaries are supposed to believe we are mad enough to destroy the whole world, with ourselves and our own children in it, for revenge.

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