Das Pentagon will 141 Milliarden Dollar für eine Weltuntergangsmaschine ausgeben

Despite real concerns over cost overruns, human lives, and the general uselessness of ICBMs, the Pentagon is barreling forward with a plan to modernize those silos and their missiles. Right now the Department of Defense thinks it’ll cost $141 billion. Independent research puts the number at closer [to $315 billion](https://www.taxpayer.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/5-30-24_Ripe-for-Rescission-A-Cost-Benefit-Analysis-of-U.S.-ICBMs.pdf).

All of that is money the Pentagon plans to use to build a doomsday machine—a weapon that, were it ever used, would mean the end of human civilization. Such a weapon, most experts agree, is pointless.

ICBMs are a relic of the Cold War. The conventional thinking is that a nuclear power needs three options for deploying nuclear weapons—air-based strategic bombers, sea-based stealth submarines, and land-based missiles. That’s the nuclear triad. Should one leg of the triad fail, one of the other two will prevail.

Read the full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/the-pentagon-wants-to-spend-dollar141-billion-on-a-doomsday-machine/](https://www.wired.com/story/the-pentagon-wants-to-spend-dollar141-billion-on-a-doomsday-machine/)

If they do, they better make sure they tell everyone about it. Because otherwise, kind of negates the purpose of having a doomsday device.

#Dr. Strangelove

That sounds like one of Dr. Doofenshmirtz inventions.