This sleepy, confused, unhealthy old man has sole and ultimate authority over whether, when, and how to use any or all of the approximately 1,770 deployed weapons in the US nuclear stockpile, up to 900 of which are maintained on 24/7 alert on Minuteman III ICBMs and Trident II D5LE SLBMs.
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This sleepy, confused, unhealthy old man has sole and ultimate authority over whether, when, and how to use any or all of the approximately 1,770 deployed weapons in the US nuclear stockpile, up to 900 of which are maintained on 24/7 alert on Minuteman III ICBMs and Trident II D5LE SLBMs.
You know what? Weird that they made these guys Army. It would be Air Force, not Army, in charge of GBIs.
Army does ADA, but low level stuff, not ICBMs.
#hatm
Army does ADA, but low level stuff, not ICBMs.
#hatm
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
You know what? Weird that they made these guys Army. It would be Air Force, not Army, in charge of GBIs.
Army does ADA, but low level stuff, not ICBMs.
#hatm
Army does ADA, but low level stuff, not ICBMs.
#hatm
"Meneer Timmermans, er worden zojuist talloze ICBMs gelanceerd door de VS, Rusland en Noord-Korea. Hoe komt het toch dat de VVD u zo haat?"
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Meneer Timmermans, er worden zojuist talloze ICBMs gelanceerd door de VS, Rusland en Noord-Korea. Hoe komt het toch dat de VVD u zo haat?"
(have no idea who the original creator of this one is, it's just shared endlessly on the brain-melting platforms. it belongs here on your timeline. Incoming Baby Missiles, the ICBMs that I support)
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
(have no idea who the original creator of this one is, it's just shared endlessly on the brain-melting platforms. it belongs here on your timeline. Incoming Baby Missiles, the ICBMs that I support)
It is impressive how much he got right, however. Less than a year after Hiroshima he intuited the logic of nuclear proliferation, the development of ICBMs, the critical importance of second strike capability and the logic of MAD deterrence.
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It is impressive how much he got right, however. Less than a year after Hiroshima he intuited the logic of nuclear proliferation, the development of ICBMs, the critical importance of second strike capability and the logic of MAD deterrence.
oh and also our awesome icbms, also good silos
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
oh and also our awesome icbms, also good silos
#TreeTour
This bauble is filled with the securely shredded intelligence and targetting information for nuclear ICBMs. When theyre done with them, they'd take some shreds and make them into Xmas ornaments as a fundraiser.
Pretty neat, huh?
This bauble is filled with the securely shredded intelligence and targetting information for nuclear ICBMs. When theyre done with them, they'd take some shreds and make them into Xmas ornaments as a fundraiser.
Pretty neat, huh?
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#TreeTour
This bauble is filled with the securely shredded intelligence and targetting information for nuclear ICBMs. When theyre done with them, they'd take some shreds and make them into Xmas ornaments as a fundraiser.
Pretty neat, huh?
This bauble is filled with the securely shredded intelligence and targetting information for nuclear ICBMs. When theyre done with them, they'd take some shreds and make them into Xmas ornaments as a fundraiser.
Pretty neat, huh?
A total of 30 Spartan and 70 Sprint ABMs (armed with 1-kt W66 enhanced radiation warheads) were deployed at the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, North Dakota, to protect 150 Minuteman III ICBMs at Grand Forks AFB. The site was fully operational only from Oct. 1975 to Jan. 1976.
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A total of 30 Spartan and 70 Sprint ABMs (armed with 1-kt W66 enhanced radiation warheads) were deployed at the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, North Dakota, to protect 150 Minuteman III ICBMs at Grand Forks AFB. The site was fully operational only from Oct. 1975 to Jan. 1976.
Ditto the US would have a much easier time shooting the archer just cus it's closer to loitering over the Norks than the IDF-AF to get over Iran, but you probably aren't gonna get many if any of the ICBMs but the TBM TELs are likely to get after they get their shot off if not before?
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Ditto the US would have a much easier time shooting the archer just cus it's closer to loitering over the Norks than the IDF-AF to get over Iran, but you probably aren't gonna get many if any of the ICBMs but the TBM TELs are likely to get after they get their shot off if not before?
There are so many missiles, some that are ICBMs. Someone here on Bluesky said that if one is blown up, it doesn't matter if it is an old-fashioned or a new style missile. The new missile is mainly good for propaganda scaring the "west," IMO.
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
There are so many missiles, some that are ICBMs. Someone here on Bluesky said that if one is blown up, it doesn't matter if it is an old-fashioned or a new style missile. The new missile is mainly good for propaganda scaring the "west," IMO.
Boo(m)! Today in 1959, the first squadron of three SM-65D liquid-fueled Atlas ICBMs—each armed with a 1.4-Megaton W49 thermonuclear warhead—went on combat alert at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in the very vulnerable “D” configuration (barely-protected aboveground launch pads).
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Boo(m)! Today in 1959, the first squadron of three SM-65D liquid-fueled Atlas ICBMs—each armed with a 1.4-Megaton W49 thermonuclear warhead—went on combat alert at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in the very vulnerable “D” configuration (barely-protected aboveground launch pads).
in alternate dimensions where ICBMs don't look so awesome, i assume world peace reigns supreme
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
in alternate dimensions where ICBMs don't look so awesome, i assume world peace reigns supreme
Forget air traffic controllers, let’s fire up the ICBMs
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Forget air traffic controllers, let’s fire up the ICBMs
But I can fuck up a port with a couple cruise missiles or ICBMs already, what's the advantage to giving it this expensive oddball delivery vehicle?
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
But I can fuck up a port with a couple cruise missiles or ICBMs already, what's the advantage to giving it this expensive oddball delivery vehicle?
In the opinion of this humble isotope pusher: I think it's plausible that Trump doesn't get that "test" has a specific connotation here, and that he's referring to signalling tests of unarmed ICBMs, maybe LRSO or something, as response to the Burevestnik test.
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
In the opinion of this humble isotope pusher: I think it's plausible that Trump doesn't get that "test" has a specific connotation here, and that he's referring to signalling tests of unarmed ICBMs, maybe LRSO or something, as response to the Burevestnik test.
Tom spotted the #argent streaks in the sky and knew the war had begun. The silver exhaust arcing across the sky would have been beautiful if they hadn’t been the trails of ICBMs. #vss365 #skywrite #flashfiction
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Tom spotted the #argent streaks in the sky and knew the war had begun. The silver exhaust arcing across the sky would have been beautiful if they hadn’t been the trails of ICBMs. #vss365 #skywrite #flashfiction
'Update and renovation of existing weapons' my arse.
America's 'Minuteman' ICBMs are clapped out Cold War relics, even the(allegedly) upgraded 'Minuteman' 3s.
Trident is another codged up old ruin.
America's 'Minuteman' ICBMs are clapped out Cold War relics, even the(allegedly) upgraded 'Minuteman' 3s.
Trident is another codged up old ruin.
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
'Update and renovation of existing weapons' my arse.
America's 'Minuteman' ICBMs are clapped out Cold War relics, even the(allegedly) upgraded 'Minuteman' 3s.
Trident is another codged up old ruin.
America's 'Minuteman' ICBMs are clapped out Cold War relics, even the(allegedly) upgraded 'Minuteman' 3s.
Trident is another codged up old ruin.
I hate to be that person, but the US nuclear stockpile actually was an advantage over the USSR in the 1960s: hydrogen bombs were expensive to build, the US had more bombs *and* bombers, and ICBMs were in their infancy.
But they were also physical objects that couldn't just be exfiltrated.
But they were also physical objects that couldn't just be exfiltrated.
This is just fucking stupid. If your invention is easily stolen within months, then it's not an asymmetric advantage!
This is like calling the nuclear bomb an asymmetric advantage over the Soviet Union in the 1960s, you fucking stupid or what.
This is like calling the nuclear bomb an asymmetric advantage over the Soviet Union in the 1960s, you fucking stupid or what.
this is cope, imo
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I hate to be that person, but the US nuclear stockpile actually was an advantage over the USSR in the 1960s: hydrogen bombs were expensive to build, the US had more bombs *and* bombers, and ICBMs were in their infancy.
But they were also physical objects that couldn't just be exfiltrated.
But they were also physical objects that couldn't just be exfiltrated.
I was just discussing this. In the 80s, I always had a low level fear of a nuclear war happening. Now, I just don't. I doubt Trump or his cronies could profit from one, and I just assume Putin sold off all the warheads years ago and let the ICBMs rot in the silos.
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I was just discussing this. In the 80s, I always had a low level fear of a nuclear war happening. Now, I just don't. I doubt Trump or his cronies could profit from one, and I just assume Putin sold off all the warheads years ago and let the ICBMs rot in the silos.
CBO: $542 billion to defend against 1-2 missiles
DIA: North Korea could have 50 by 2035
www.dia.mil/articles/pre...
DIA: North Korea could have 50 by 2035
www.dia.mil/articles/pre...
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
CBO: $542 billion to defend against 1-2 missiles
DIA: North Korea could have 50 by 2035
www.dia.mil/articles/pre...
DIA: North Korea could have 50 by 2035
www.dia.mil/articles/pre...
Of the 427.9 Megatons expended in all atmospheric nuclear tests from 1945-80, 57% or 244 Megatons (equal to 16,250 Little Boy bombs) occurred during the 16 months from September 1961-December 1962, when the USSR conducted its final such test. The Limited Test Ban Treaty took effect October 10, 1963.
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Of the 427.9 Megatons expended in all atmospheric nuclear tests from 1945-80, 57% or 244 Megatons (equal to 16,250 Little Boy bombs) occurred during the 16 months from September 1961-December 1962, when the USSR conducted its final such test. The Limited Test Ban Treaty took effect October 10, 1963.
One of my favourite social media things is for some weird random jackass to come into my replies with a whole bunch of nonsense and then to block me when I reply to it
Just to be clear - FUCKING AROUND WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND TESTING COUNTRIES WITH STOCKPILES AND ICBMs IS NOT A GOOD PLAN JFC.
Just to be clear - FUCKING AROUND WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND TESTING COUNTRIES WITH STOCKPILES AND ICBMs IS NOT A GOOD PLAN JFC.
October 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
One of my favourite social media things is for some weird random jackass to come into my replies with a whole bunch of nonsense and then to block me when I reply to it
Just to be clear - FUCKING AROUND WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND TESTING COUNTRIES WITH STOCKPILES AND ICBMs IS NOT A GOOD PLAN JFC.
Just to be clear - FUCKING AROUND WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND TESTING COUNTRIES WITH STOCKPILES AND ICBMs IS NOT A GOOD PLAN JFC.
I’m sure Stephen Miller has been screaming into the void about how unfair it is that he can’t launch ICBMs at will.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I’m sure Stephen Miller has been screaming into the void about how unfair it is that he can’t launch ICBMs at will.
RETVRN to Boeing trying to sell the 747 to the dod(after losing the freighter competition) with an array of silly concepts
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
RETVRN to Boeing trying to sell the 747 to the dod(after losing the freighter competition) with an array of silly concepts
Meanwhile, ballistic missiles developed faster than anticipated.
ICBMs could rain ruin on faraway targets about as unstoppably as SLAM, were cheaper, didn't require highly enriched uranium for fuel, and, you know, *could be tested.*
So in 1964, SLAM and Tory (the engine, alas) got canned.
ICBMs could rain ruin on faraway targets about as unstoppably as SLAM, were cheaper, didn't require highly enriched uranium for fuel, and, you know, *could be tested.*
So in 1964, SLAM and Tory (the engine, alas) got canned.
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Meanwhile, ballistic missiles developed faster than anticipated.
ICBMs could rain ruin on faraway targets about as unstoppably as SLAM, were cheaper, didn't require highly enriched uranium for fuel, and, you know, *could be tested.*
So in 1964, SLAM and Tory (the engine, alas) got canned.
ICBMs could rain ruin on faraway targets about as unstoppably as SLAM, were cheaper, didn't require highly enriched uranium for fuel, and, you know, *could be tested.*
So in 1964, SLAM and Tory (the engine, alas) got canned.