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by jauntywundrkind 471 days ago
I don't find your technial arguments particularly compelling.

The US hired a couple college grads to do the Nth Country Project, to build a bomb. In 1964. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817514 https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2025-0...

Sure, ICBM's are big and expensive to build. I'm not sure that Poland feels compelled to have such range, at least from the start. This also depends on how big a bomb they feel they need, and how miniaturizable the bomb is. Maybe you want to go bigger, but the US built the considerable B54 portable nuclear munitions in 1963, weighing ~50 lbs. A medium sized drone of today could carry that quite a long range.

I really wish this was unnecessary. The US abandoning allies and siding with the Russians is below my worst expectations, and I expected a good amount of this egregious nation destroying shit.