Mobile Nuclear Missiles on US Roads, page 1

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They stop regularly at restaurants, gas stations and truck stops along the way. You might have been one of the thousands of people who have unknowingly sipped a coffee or eaten a Big Mac a few yards from an H-bomb.

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Since when did nuclear weapons become "PEACEKEEPERS" I found it funny that they are called that when the very nature of a nuclear weapon is massive and total destruction!

To the OP where did you find the info. You did not quote a source and I am very interested to read more about this...

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In theory It could as well be

"One of the smallest nuclear weapons ever built, the Davy Crockett was developed in the late 1950s for use against Soviet troops had war broken out in Europe. Small teams of the Atomic Battle Group (charged with operating the device) would be stationed every few kilometers to guard against Soviet attack, using the power of their nuclear artillery to kill or incapacitate advancing troop formations and irradiate the area so that it was uninhabitable for up to 48 hours, long enough to mobilize NATO forces."

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They stop regularly at restaurants, gas stations and truck stops along the way. You might have been one of the thousands of people who have unknowingly sipped a coffee or eaten a Big Mac a few yards from an H-bomb.

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Theres your source. You would be absolutely **SHOCKED** where some of these very active ICBMs are siloed.

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Real quickly the escorts don't follow right behind there is a requirement of distance for them.

There were probably more than the two escorts also.And yeah they checked you out called in your license number and knew all about you in minutes.

They even know you posted the encounter on this site.Sleep good tonight knowing you are being monitored now.

I said I would be back to post some pictures.

These are from the Nevada Test Site.The USAF did some preliminary studies and burned through a lot of taxpayer money trying to convince congress that transporting missiles on mobile launchers both by vehicle and trains.These are photos from the site off of Google Earth.

I also am including a link to a KMZ file that will take you there in Google Earth.



This is a view is of the transporter test track the track is on the right and the parking area for the transporters is on the left.Don't have a clue what the items parked there now are.



This is a view of the train tunnel they built to study the feasibility of hiding the missiles in side mountains.

There used to be tracks coming out and when I was there a train and a rail car were inside.I saw the front of the train but never ventured inside.

Don't like dark tunnels,wasn't worried about getting caught.

The KMZ files include where the Admin building and shop areas were.

MX Missile Transporter Test area.

All this stuff had been unused for about 5 years when I was there.

But when I was there there was a big honking transporter parked across th street that was not the one you see when searching images on the net.It was twice the size.

It had a BIG tractor at both ends to move it.

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Any chance you might have one of the US currency mints near that area? Large amounts of newly printed money are carried on pallets, in large shiny trucks, accompanied by very well armed individuals, and it's usually flown out or trucked to the nearest Federal Reserve bank.

Originally posted by buddhasystem
I don't believe that for a second. Mobile ICBMs have all the potential to undermine nuclear equilibrium factor because these are unverifiable and hard to hit.

There was never nuclear equilibrium in any meaningful sense of the word. One of belligerents, the US/NATO or the USSR, would have 'lost' the war but since there were so many unknown neither side felt that 'victory' would constitute a net gain in the ability to control/protect their populations or project power around the world.

As the hunt for Iraq's scuds showed road mobile missiles are exceedingly hard to find even if you have managed complete air superiority over the suspected areas; not something that was ever realistic in the skies of the former USSR.

Soviets used to have a massive number of ICBMs mounted on rail, and given the size of that country (you might want to check it out) finding those makes needle in a haystack look trivial.

And the Russians had and still do have a large haystack and somewhere around 200 of those needle's.

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So at some point, there was a treaty that ended that practice, and I believe that the US would stick with it (or risk resumption of that Russian practice).

No. The US unilaterally, but slowly, disarmed itself while the Russians took older weapons out of service and have kept right on deploying newer one' despite all the supposed economic hardship.

Regards,

Stellar

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