New Low-Yield Nuclear Warheads Have All Been Delivered To The U.S. Navy

Personnel at the Pantex plant in Texas load a Mk 4A reentry vehicle containing a W76-1 warhead into a container for transport. The W76-2 warhead fits inside the same reentry vehicle. YouTube capture

Warzone/The Drive: New Low-Yield Nuclear Warheads That Biden Calls A "Bad Idea" Have All Been Delivered 

Biden has opposed the Trump Administration's deployment of low-yield nuclear warheads on the Navy's Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles. 

Anew report says that the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has finished the planned production run of controversial low-yield W76-2 nuclear warheads for the U.S. Navy's Trident D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles and delivered all of them to that service. This revelation comes just weeks before President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office. Biden has said that fielding this weapon, which some experts say worryingly increases the chances of the U.S. government using nuclear weapons in a crisis, is a "bad idea." 

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WNU Editor: I would not be surprised if the incoming Biden administration pulls back from this deployment of low-yield nuclear weapons .... Biden to Review U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Programs, With Eye Toward Cuts (WSJ).