Just one comment: Hitler was a dictator, yes, but he wasn’t foolish. He made some strategic mistakes that not many can dispute, which led to Germany’s defeat and his suicide, but he was a smart, carefully calculating man. You probably meant that he was an “evil asshole,” to put it without much creativity, which is fine; I don’t think many will dispute that, either. A discussion of stupidity starts with George W. Bush, and it ends with him; there isn’t much left in between, either.

@ Xero - “There is absolutely no point in determining which nuclear ICBM/SLBM is the best..”

Which would you rather have, a very expensive bomber like B-2 Spirit that carries less than 25% chance of hitting a highly defended target or a cheaper new generation ICBM that has 100% chance of hitting the target?

@ Xero - “Only a foolish Dictator (apparently, someone like Hitler) would use such weapons of mass destruction rather than something like a Tommahawk Missile or some of the 21st Century Jets like Su-47s and F-22s (My Top 2).”

In fact it is the opposite. Only a mentally insane would attempt to secure his nation from United States using cruise missiles and fighters, if he could afford nuclear weapons. Maintaining and developing expensive weapons like these would drain the resources of China or Russia when they could spend much less and ensure foolproof security for at least a decade using nuclear missiles. If you were to protect yourself from thugs, it would make better sense to equip yourself with a gun rather than spend considerable amount of time, effort and money to build up your body that needs constant maintenance and diet. Nuclear weapons work on the same principle, they are cheap, effective and deadly like a gun.

@ Xero - “Nuclear Missiles are so 20th Century, don’t you think?”

Nuclear weapons are actually 25th century weapons that were built a few centuries ahead due to a few breakthorough researches by Europeans. Fighters and bombers are 20th century weapons that make sense only in use against militarily impotent nations like Iraq. The only weapons that can ensure a nation’s sovereignty and protection from a foreign attack are nuclear weapons.

@ Bharat - “Hitler was a dictator, yes, but he wasn’t foolish.”

Agreed. If Hitler was a stupid man as Xero claims, he wouldn’t have had the two superpowers of the time - Great Britain and United States on their knees trying to make a truce with him. His biggest mistake was that he didn’t learn from history. He unestimated Russia and attempted to invade the nation that no one could successfully invade. Fortunately for Americans, their governments didn’t make this mistake that would have brought about its self-destruction and anihilation like Hitler or Napoleon.

Something Aby said caught my eye though, “They should be used in situations like fighting against ETs”….I wonder how the world would react if that ever happened.