U.S. officials examine a M-388 Davy Crockett nuclear weapon. It used one of the smallest nuclear warheads ever developed by the United States. Wikipedia
James Stavridis, Bloomberg: 'Low-Yield' Nukes Are a Very High Threat
Forces from a century ago are back in play. But the stakes are much higher.
In his brilliant book tracing the origins of the First World War, “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,” Christopher Clark says, “The protagonists were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world.”
As the prestigious Munich Security Conference wrapped up over President’s Day weekend, the pervading feeling of many longtime observers is that we are again sleepwalking toward a conflict nobody wants or needs -- this time with nuclear weapons. The hallways of this conference were jammed as usual, resembling a policy-wonk mosh pit. The conversations on the platform ranged from Senator Lindsey Graham’s suggestion of a European version of Guantanamo Bay to take in the hundreds of Syrian jihadists, to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s question to the Iranian Foreign Minister as he waved around a piece of an Iranian drone: “Do you recognize this?”
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WNU Editor: The "Davy Crockett" (nuclear device) is an example on how small these weapons can become.
That's why the proverbial nuke-in-a-suitcase is so frightening.. the tech has been out for decades, materials are not secured world wide, especially after the collapse of the soviet union... black-markets are there and a few (or more) crazies exist who'd actually use it against civilian targets
ReplyDeleteIt's obviously going to happen in one form or another, only questions are when and where