LGM-35A Sentinel - Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program

[Scott Kenny]

Anything not NBC is definitely non-WMD, although arguably a theoretical pure impact fusion weapon using small pellets that generates a blast smaller than say a FOAB could also be deemed non-WMD too.

Kinetics of sufficient energy are indistinguishable from WMDs.

 

[NMaude]

Kinetics of sufficient energy are indistinguishable from WMDs.

Certainly once a projectile reaches 1% of light-speed.

 

[Yellow Palace]

Anything not NBC is definitely non-WMD, although arguably a theoretical pure impact fusion weapon using small pellets that generates a blast smaller than say a FOAB could also be deemed non-WMD too.

In the absence of a definition in the Treaty, it's open to argument... which in extremis includes arguing to use the US anti-terrorism definition, which includes any explosive bomb or grenade.

Which is a silly definition to use. But I've seen it used as an argument that Iraq had WMDs in 2003, and it was silly there as well.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Certainly once a projectile reaches 1% of light-speed.

You mean 0.1% cee.

3000km/s gets you into a million times the item's weight in TNT.

 

[Scott Kenny]

In the absence of a definition in the Treaty, it's open to argument... which in extremis includes arguing to use the US anti-terrorism definition, which includes any explosive bomb or grenade.

Which is a silly definition to use. But I've seen it used as an argument that Iraq had WMDs in 2003, and it was silly there as well.

The WMDs Iraq had in 2003 were chemicals. Not nukes.

 

[Forest Green]

The WMDs Iraq had in 2003 were chemicals. Not nukes.

Yes, it's questionable whether the regime knew it had them though but some were found rotting away somewhere.

 

[Yellow Palace]

The WMDs Iraq had in 2003 were chemicals. Not nukes.

Be that as it may - I distinctly remember some commentators arguing that it didn't matter if they found chemicals or nukes, because they'd definitely found explosive bombs, and those (to their mind) counted.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Be that as it may - I distinctly remember some commentators arguing that it didn't matter if they found chemicals or nukes, because they'd definitely found explosive bombs, and those (to their mind) counted.

Those commentators need to stop smoking crack.

 

[NMaude]

The WMDs Iraq had in 2003 were chemicals. Not nukes.

And those chemical warheads turned out to be a lie used to justify the US's idiotic 2003 invasion of Iraq.

 

[Scott Kenny]

And those chemical warheads turned out to be a lie used to justify the US's idiotic 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Tell that to the thousands of servicemen poisoned by their storage sites.

 

[Yellow Palace]

Those commentators need to stop smoking crack.

There's a reason I stopped paying attention to them!