With the US forever investing more into their nuclear arsenal, ensuring they have the world’s biggest collection of city destroying arms, the fact that none have been used in over 70 years is a silver lining to many, but within the administration, it may be a problem that needs correcting.
Administration officials are now said to both be hard at work acquiring smaller, more “usable” nuclear weapons, and radically changing the rules of engagement with respect to a US nuclear first strike, so that such attacks are more possible in the future.
While some nuclear powers have ruled out ever launching a first strike, the US has long refused to make such a position, with President Obama’s brief consideration of such a pledge quickly panned as making the US “look weak.”
Even without the pledge, the current crop of arms are for all intents and purposes unusable except in an extinction-level nuclear exchange. Such a strike would simply be too big, and too much of a humanitarian disaster to seriously contemplate.
Which is where these smaller nuclear arms come in. Pentagon officials see the introduction of more tactical nuclear arms as a way to build arms that are usable at a much lower threshold, and seem to be shrugging off concerns that this will effectively normalize nuclear warfare.
“Pentagon officials…”?
Twisted, evil and sick!! Words cannot adequately describe what I really think of these people, except they are not even worthy of being called human. They are new Nazi’s. Evil in it’s purest form.
And to think of you have to pay taxes to support these grand first strike people
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Will become known as “Blitznuke”.
Written as if this is ho-hum normal, does nobody have any idea what the USA started and luckily nobody else copied in 1945??? Trump is 71 years old and has learnt nothing. His staff must be as bad, and the military top brass, together with the neocons with all their power, seem to wallow in self-deception.
All through the Cold War years, which I remember, there was an important understanding that nuclear strikes would lead to bigger things. Mutually Assured Destruction allowed cooler heads to prevail, as the leaders in those days, even Americans, knew that there is no more a “limited” nuclear war.
I understood that even the USA agreed with the other 4 “legal” nuke powers not to launch a first strike-if nobody does, deterrence works- but it seems the USA was always the belligerent one ready to nuke others, if this article is correct. Nukes cannot be used, their “upgrading” or miniaturizing should not be even considered. The USA pretends to be a force for good, but threats and attacks of any kind are already war crimes. Give peace a chance, please.
they don’t like peace, peace places limits on their power, in their diabolical narcissist line of thought. if they conquered the world, there would still be no peace, they would war against each other.
While Trump is now President, this current move started with Bush, and was continued under Obama. Rumsfeld as Dubya’s SecDef called it “Prompt Global Strike.”