/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12177003
Yeah and there's really no precedent for keeping an entire category of technology classified. From a strategic perspective, if you have advanced technological capabilities then you WANT your opponents to know. They have to spend more resources to try and keep up and they're less likely to pick a fight.

Take stealth. The F-117 was classified until 1988 but the US announced all the way back in 1980 that we had developed a stealth aircraft, when the F-117 was still being tested.

BUT it could be that he's referring to technology that isn't even hidden - Project Orion. It could traverse the stars and a lot of the research for it remains classified because the US doesn't want other countries to know how to build shaped nuclear charges which can easily be turned into cabasa howitzers.