US Navy options for the future--probably stating the obvious.

[HRogge]

And of course, sailing out of an inlet in Northern Russia aboard a newly refurbished Arkhangelsk. Because if you've got one, you've got to have the other.

"... a deadly game of chess against our old adversary, the American Navy. For forty years, your fathers and their fathers before this game played this game, and played it well. Now, we begin again; no longer in the silence beneath the ocean, but in the silence between the planets. The order is, engage the ion drive. Comrades, Today we sail into history...."

EDIT:

Okay, that's not such a good idea, though it could spur some sort of revised outer space treaty.... nobody wants another arms race sort of thing.

I don't think the "outer space treaty" is worth the paper its written on. With the tech to get into orbit easily and the threat of orbital supremacy of "the other side" (including asteroid strikes) the larger Earth nations would quickly take control of the Earth-Moon system and maybe beyond.