The “Nuclear Sponge” refers to the hundreds of nuclear missiles spread across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming. These ICBMs, are not meant to be launched, but to “absorb” a nuclear attack and spare major population centers.
Today we discuss the logic of the “Nuclear Sponge” policy along with the history of nuclear weapons in the U.S.
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