More Useable Nukes?!?

Posted: July 27, 2018 by Brian Johnston

The current version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) being considered has a provision providing $88 million in funding to develop a low-yield Trident warhead. These weapons are often referred to as ‘more useable’ nukes. If nuclear weapons have kept us safe for some 70 years, it’s because the threshold for their use has remained impossibly high. Messing with that equation is a dangerous game, and it’s the opposite of the one we ought to be playing.

Brian Johnston
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References

  1. Watch 'Threads' at the movie archive
  2. US plans new nuclear weapons
  3. 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
  4. Mattis says there's no such thing as a tactical nuke, asks for cruise missile
  5. Tactical nuclear weapons at a glance
  6. Union of Concerned Scientists oppose low yield Trident warhead
  7. Dan Carlin Destroyer of Worlds podcast on YouTube
  8. How US and Russia stopped South Africa from getting the bomb
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