Originally Posted by
jettyman
You really should educate yourself more if you're going to start threads like this or respond to other political threads. We don't have to wonder if China and Russia have conducted any nuclear testing recently. We know they have. We KNOW they have never stopped their nuclear program development. We know that China has been developing low yield nuclear weapons and conducting non explosive tests for those weapons. We also know Russia has been doing the same. Russia has been trying to successfully develop low yield technologies as witnessed by the nuclear explosion of their latest nuclear powered cruise missile. Sooo, if you think we should just sit on our hands and watch them develop new technologies without doing anything, well I'm glad you're not in the decision making process. Do I think Russia or China would try to strike the US with one of these new nuclear technologies...doubtful but they are also trying to develop non detectable missile and rocket technologies that could be used to take out our satellites in the future or that could be used to against our ships or even land based targets. Granted, they know we have trident submarines sitting on the bottom of the ocean just outside their harbors that have nuclear missiles just waiting to destroy them if they try anything but still, we can't just let them pass us up regarding future technologies.