Tuesday, September 17, 2019

The Case For Low-Yield Nuclear Warheads


RCD: 'Yes' on the Low-Yield Warhead for Trident

Just last month, in light of the upcoming House-Senate debate on U.S. nuclear modernization, Sen. Elizabeth Warren along with seventeen Democratic Senators wrote to the Senate Armed Services Committee urging support for three nuclear initiatives that were adopted in the House defense bill. Specifically, the initiatives (1) express the sense of Congress that the United States seeks to extend the New START Treaty with Russia, (2) deny funding for new INF-type missiles "until diplomatic and strategic planning steps are taken", and (3) prohibit deployment of a lower-yield warhead for the Trident D-5 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

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WNU Editor: Russia will not make a difference between a small tactical nuclear explosion or a bigger one. To them it is a nuclear attack, and will respond in kind.

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