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A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks

apnews.com A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks

A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It marks the largest cultural shift in 60 years in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission.

A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks::A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It marks the largest cultural shift in 60 years in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission.

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The fact that humanity needs the threat of nukes to maintain peace, says a lot of the disparity between the advancements of our technology and the limitations of our own primitive mentality.
I wish we were more like Star Fleet.
- Last time I watched star trek high I almost cried… it’s not fair!!! That could be us but the capitalist scum playin with our lives instead.
  Best the world’s oligarch trash can do is the ferengi alliance (the TNG version, not ds9)
  
  Best the world’s oligarch trash can do is the ferengi alliance
  BRB, looking up Quark's "we're better" rant
  (the TNG version, not ds9)
  Oh wait, never mind.
  
  There's a whole bunch going on they don't talk about. There may not be money, but there's a shit load of cronyism and politics. I can only imagine the classes too. Who decides who gets land? Who gets a ship? Where me how big is your house? How does one get a job they like? There's still gardeners, construction workers, janitors, plumbers, electricians, fast food workers, and everything else. They've got IDs, so something resembling the DMV still exists too. Who wants that job? Crime 100% still exists at all levels and the courts have proven to be less than fair in many episodes.
  I'd argue humans and ferengi are super similar except humans are not as outwardly greedy.
- even in that world, humans still had to take things to the brink.
  
  We’re just on the wrong side of the horrible wars that lead to the Federation
- In order for Star Fleet to happen, we'd need WW3.
  
  Why do you think WW3 would finally inspire us to stop killing eachother? What makes you think there will be anything left?
- Oh good, we just have to rely on an alien intervention after we break the laws of physics in a controlled manner, in the aftermath of a devastating conflict.

Well I guess we have solved why the universe is silent. i.e no evidence yet of intelligent life
- Certainly not explicit evidence of intelligent life, but the UAP situation makes me wonder. I have compiled a tremendous amount of evidence supporting the claim that UAP/UFO are real intelligently controlled objects. Once again, because often people cannot separate the two, this does not prove aliens are real/that is not my argument.
  The sources of information are all legitimate and you can verify them for yourself. I sourced the actual government documents from the National Archives. There's no debating the authenticity of the documents. I also included bipartisan quotes supporting the topic, including Schumer and AOC. There is also verified goverment footage of UAP.
  For the people whose first instinct is to mislabel me as a crackpot and ignore the link: If you are so sure of yourself, I challenge you to read it and see if you think I'm crazy. You wouldn't say that about other pieces I write. I'm about to start my Master's in Clinical Counseling. I'm not some wild conspiracy theorist.
  The amount of denial to the point where people won't even consider evaluating evidence feels like Don't Look Up.
  Edit: This is an excerpt from my post for those who are so sure of themselves to consider:
  I admit I had difficulty suspending my disbelief in the possibility of UAP, but there is an important example from history that ought to give the skeptic pause in unilaterally dismissing this subject before reading on. I'm referring to the discovery of handwashing, in which everyone originally rejected the antiseptic procedure and surgeons didn't even wash their hands prior to operation.
  Despite his research, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In the asylum he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later from a gangrenous wound on his right hand that may have been caused by the beating. [43]
  Like Semmelweis' research, this subject is being discounted and rejected on the basis of preexisting beliefs; not lack of reasonable evidence or ability to to study UAP. And like Semmelweis, rational individuals and scientists studying this subject are being mislabeled as crackpots, and their research misconstrued to have to do with aliens, rather than the very real phenomenon at hand.
  
  You've put serious work into this and your writing is well stated, sourced and compelling, so far. I'm willing to suspend disbelief and take a deep dive.
  and their research misconstrued to have to do with aliens, rather than the very real phenomenon at hand
  Yeah. Something is clearly happening we don't understand, and I don't believe all our observations can be accounted for as advanced military tech.
  Not sure how I feel about the Semmelweis comparison. On one hand, we're far more rational and advanced than then. OTHO, meh, let's not assume we know it all.
  Bookmarked your site, but you better not get crazier and crazier as I read!
  EDIT: I'll keep my notes here as I read. Gonna take some time!
  AOC talking about, "not aliens, but some shit is happening" and "pulling threads" to unravel it. :) Y'all, AOC unravelling threads and asking questions, is exactly why Trump is getting his ass handed to him in a New York courtroom, right now.
  
  Any intelligent species capable of crossing interstellar space isn't letting their spacecraft be detected by us. The gulf between modern humanity and a species that can cross hundreds, thousands of light years of space is ENORMOUS.
  
  Have you read the book American Cosmic?
  Btw I just realized people really seem to not like your comment. I urge everyone to please have an open mind when researching this topic. Yes, it's filled with a bunch of charlatans and BS, but there is definitely something to it. We like to think our current level of scientific understanding is gospel, but I believe we are barely scratching the surface.
  
  I wouldn't bother trying to convince people. Can't be done. :)

And in a billion years, we'll all be gone anyway. None of this will matter. I wish we could enjoy it now while we're here. Oh well.
- Ain't that the truth.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Commanders hope the modernization of the Sentinel, and of the trucks, gear and living quarters, will help attract and retain young technology-minded service members who are now asked each day to find ways to keep a very old system running.
Nuclear modernization was delayed for years because the United States deferred spending on new missiles, bombers and submarines in order to support the post 9/11 wars overseas.
That is 80 years after the U.S. last used nuclear weapons in war, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, which killed an estimated 100,000 in an instant and likely tens of thousands more over time.
However, to provide defense in depth, we will have additional security measures at the boundary and inside the network, enabling our weapon system to operate effectively in a cyber-contested environment,” Clegg said.
Those who maintain the Minuteman III have tried over the years to bring in new technology to make maintenance more efficient, but they have found that sometimes the old manual way of tracking things — sometimes literally with a binder and pen — is better, especially in frigid temperatures.
Also, when maintenance crews at Malmstrom tested some radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology — think of how seaports track items inside cargo containers — it created security vulnerabilities.
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