alt Hacker NewsI imagine that if you can colonize other planets you can also target them with nuclear weapons.
It is like saying that the solution to all problems is colonizing Antarctica.
I imagine that if you can colonize other planets you can also target them with nuclear weapons.
It is like saying that the solution to all problems is colonizing Antarctica.
It's much easier to intercept said nuclear weapon because instead of minutes you would have months to do it. And attacking Mars outside the few months every two years that have the most favorable transfer windows would also be much more difficult. It's a non-trivial advantage.
Of course, if you have nuclear weapons already on Mars that can be remotely triggered from Earth this doesn't apply, but hopefully we can avoid that...