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"Submarine Tech" has produced a fleet of quiet submersible vehicles powered by nuclear reactors and capable of continuously operating without provisions for several months, each containing several miniature nuclear missile silos with a missile inside each of which is capable of destroying multiple city-sized targets anywhere on the surface of the Earth on a moment's notice.

And that is just the unclassified stuff.

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There are no classified offensive nuclear weapons. Probably no classified launch vehicles. It would defeat the point.

What about the fast neutron enhanced stuff?

That’s a bad assumption because it presumes the only point of weapons at this point is to escalate MAD.

> There are no classified offensive nuclear weapons. Probably no classified launch vehicles.

I'm not sure this is really true. It's widely believed that Israel have classified nuclear weapons and launch vehicles.

That's only because they're not supposed to have them and announcing it would be an admission.

Everybody knows they do though.

> Everybody knows they do though.

That's literally what I said.

I don’t think people understand the scope of what I’m talking about.

I’m talking massive submarines the size of cruise ships submerging deep into the water and carrying easily 100 aircraft and 5000 people. And yes a cache of Nuclear Weapons ready to wipe out entire cities if necessary.

But... why?

The biggest issue with this would be displacement. A underwater vehicle that large would displace enough water that it could be tracked by satellite. It would also be a big enough whole in the water from a sound point of view to be easily tracked. That kind of negates the entire purpose of being hidden.

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