alt Hacker News> Except that the use of nuclear bombs is predicated on the theory of strategic air bombing
Aren’t ICBMs and submarine-launched warheads the other two parts of the US’s triad?
> Except that the use of nuclear bombs is predicated on the theory of strategic air bombing
Aren’t ICBMs and submarine-launched warheads the other two parts of the US’s triad?
Missiles are functionally the same things as bombs in this scenario, since the thesis of strategic air bombing is that destroying civilian infrastructure will demoralize the populace and press them to end war, and the various kinds of cruise missiles are essentially just different kinetic means of deploying that same big boom to civilians.