text: does this scare you?? the last line of defense in this country is the so-called trident system, the nuclear? subs that carry the polaris missiles. one sub has enough polaris missiles, (they are mirv's, multiple independently targetted re-entry vehicles). total firepwer is therefore, 340- that's right, 340 thermonuclear bombs. if the captain was a real good shot (what i mean is if he got them all off perfectly and hit his targets, that's 340 cities. that should pretty much do planet earth in, at least for a while. now, this is just one sub's power out of the whole fleet.       when all other communication fails, these guys have launch authorization. (this was sort of dramatized i believe in the movie with denzel washington and gene hackman, i think called "crimson tide"). the reason they have it, is the assumption that in all out wwiii, there'd be nothing left topside, and well,  somebody has to do it. this of course, is all in a worst case scenario- thre is no congress or president or line of succesion left, yet still- think about it- does it not scare you that this much might could..? scares the crap out of me.  scares me more that i live in a secluded area and might survive a little while.