Peach
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Stand down.Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any War will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
The Statesman who yields to War Fever must realize that once the signal is given he is no longer the Master Of Policy but the Slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations ALL take their seats at the council board on the morrow of a declaration of War.
Always remember, however sure you are that you can easily win, that there would not BE a War, if the other man did not think HE also had a chance. Winston Churchill
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One Trident.
14 nuclear-powered SSBNs (fleet ballistic missile submarines (FBM)), each armed with up to 24 Trident II SLBMs; they are also known as "Trident" submarines, and provide the sea-based leg of the nuclear triad of the U.S. strategic nuclear weapons arsenal. Each of the 24 SLBMs are equipped with 11 Multiple Independnt Targeted Vehicles (MIRVs) with a total yield for each boat of 998 Hiroshimas.
The 14 Trident II SSBNs together carry approximately fifty percent of the total American active inventory of strategic thermonuclear warheads.
They are built in Groton, CT. They are products of Electric Boat. A sub of Genereal Dynamics.
They are the largest submarines ever built. They operate for 15 years between overall. They are silent--more slient than a Dolphin.
Each can deliver up to 66 Navy SEALs, also.
The SSBN Montana (my home state) would suffice.
Stand down.
Launch on Warning.
12 minutes.
Robert
Launch on Warning.
12 minutes.
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No 12 minutes before 9/11, however.