I'd hate to see all these missiles go to waste

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein

What to do with five hundred aging nuclear missiles? Upgrade, of course! Don’t let em go to waste. We don’t want to get caught in the upcoming world war with our pants down. This is so absurd. This country is in violation of so many treaties—hell, what’s a few more… no one’s paying attention.

The commander of the Air Force Space Command denied yesterday that his 500 nuclear-armed Minuteman III ballistic missiles are mere “Cold War icons” and said he is preparing alternative uses for the ICBMs, including arming them with conventional warheads to attack surface or deeply buried targets.

Saying that the last of 50 Peacekeeper, 10-warhead ICBMs will be deactivated by September, Gen. Lance W. Lord appealed to a National Defense University Foundation audience to create a new generation of “wizards of Armageddon.” That was the name given by author Fred Kaplan to the post-World War II strategists at the Rand Corp. and elsewhere who sold the country on strategic nuclear deterrence as a way to combat the Soviet Union.

“We are at a turning point,” Lord told an audience that included representatives of major missile contractors , “and need new strategies to deter the challenges of the 21st century.”

He said that over the next several months, he will brief Defense Department senior officials on alternative uses for the land-based ICBM force that would include missile defense missions, the ability to make precision strikes anywhere in the world in less than an hour and war-fighting missions in space.

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