so i was going to joke that i'd read the royal navy had sent it's ship to the persian gulf, but it turns out they have 21 others
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(excluding 10 submarines and a bunch of ships that look more coast-guard-y than force-projection-y)
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and at least one or more of them have nuclear missiles !
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do they work? (haven't heard of a nuclear test in decades, now that i think about it)
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that's what i meant - not just picking on the british here... easy to tell if missiles work, but when was the last warhead test, by anyone?
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no, no - totally wrong. US, 1991, France (which I remember reading about, the press was outraged) 1996, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests …
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which leads me to wonder what the shelf life of a nuke is (the device, not the payload)
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there was a very big push in the late 1990s to enhance our modeling technologies to deal with the fact that we could no longer test there was also a ton of remanufacturing of old nukes around this time I'd be amazed if we didn't help the Brits out with all of their stockpile
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Most of the computer companies who built those machines have been swallowed up or have gone out of business
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