President Biden approved in March a new nuclear strategic plan that includes preparations for a simultaneous nuclear war with Russia, China, and North Korea, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The US nuclear strategy is updated about every four years or so and is highly classified. The Times described the new strategy as the “first to examine in detail whether the United States is prepared to respond to nuclear crises that break out simultaneously or sequentially, with a combination of nuclear and nonnuclear weapons.”
US officials, including Pranay Vaddi, an arms control official on the National Security Council, have made public comments about the changes to the strategy. Vaddi said in June that the new strategy emphasizes “the need to deter Russia, the [People’s Republic of China] and North Korea simultaneously.”
The strategy also focuses on China for the first time, as the Pentagon has claimed China could increase its nuclear stockpile to 1,500 by 2035. Current estimates put China’s arsenal at about 500.
China’s arsenal is still just a fraction of what the US and Russia possess. The State Department said in July that the US has 5,748 warheads, including 2,000 that are retired and awaiting dismantlement.
According to the Arms Control Association, Russia has 5,580 warheads, including 1,200 that are retired and awaiting dismantlement. Russia has 1,549 nuclear warheads that are deployed, and the US deploys 1,419.
The New START treaty between the US and Russia caps the deployment of warheads at 1,550. While the treaty has broken down due to tensions over the war in Ukraine, both sides have committed to staying within the deployment limits, but it’s unclear if they will once New START officially expires in 2026.
While China has significantly fewer warheads than the US and Russia, a nuclear exchange between the US and China could still be enough to end life as we know it. Despite the risk of a US-China war quickly turning nuclear, US military officials are openly planning for a direct clash with Beijing and claim that the US could “win.”
The nuclear strategy’s focus on China aligns with the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy, which names Beijing as the top threat facing the US, with Russia coming in second.
Both sides are bragging about who can piss the furthest, when in fact only handful of these warheads will end life on earth.
Bit alarmist, humanity has tested over a 1000 nukes in the atmosphere including the Tsar Bomba which counts for 50 regular nukes. We are still here. Now a full on "exchange" say at Christmas time would certainly muss everybody's hair but that is several thousand nukes all at once. China if they know what is good for themselves should probably nuke up.
This is a new one to me. Not to minimize the disastrous and lasting consequences of the nuclear tests (it actually has been 2056 since 1945, the US alone performed 1030 tests) comparing nuclear tests, with actual thermonuclear war is just plain silly. There are no scenario's to my knowledge for what could realistically happen during and after a thermonuclear war – and there are no scenario's compatible with containment once it starts – that is allowing for a future that looks anything like the one we're currently occupying.
Russia revoked their ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty maintaining they won't resume tests until after the US resumed theirs. And so the idiocy continues. The US is expanding the Nevada Test Site (under false pretenses of course) while Russia is expanding their test site at Novaya Zemlya and the Chinese are doing the same at Lop Nur in Xinjiang.
Nobody should nuke up, everybody should nuke down if they knew what's good for them (and everybody else.)
We have been living now with nuclear weapons for about 80 years. And have been crawling through the eye of a needle several times in that infinitesimal small time-frame. This disastrous road of nuclear deterrence is absolutely sure to be a dead end, but at the same time, realistically speaking, I don't see a way out. We are damning ourselves and that's that I guess.
Highly cynical but true. As I am fond of reminding folks we have a plethora of other weapons in the arsenal…
“Humankind’s inhumanity, unto itself”….?….
There is a difference. The Neocon ZioNazis would prefer to destroy the world rather than lose control over it. Russia and China don't have any need for a world without Russia and China. It's a normal reaction to someone trying to oppress and destroy you. No question in mind as to who is more evil here.
Yes!! It's the Neocon lust to dominate spelled out on their web site "For A New American Century"their plan for "Full Spectrum Dominance". And have a low cost 1st strike option to enforce their worldwide dominance!
Ronald Reagan think on steroids!!! They plan to threaten to destroy the world to get their way. The Russian came up with the Tzar bomb to thwart the Neocon plan to dictate to & dominate the entire world !!!!
Agreed with Albert Bakker. Most of the tests were either on remote islands in the Pacific, in deserts away from (most) major population centers, or underground. There's no comparison of the impact on human populations from testing with what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the current weapons are up to hundreds of times more powerful.
I agree with you that China should nuke up as a deterrence, since it's the only thing to provably give the US pause before invading. All of the nuclear nations should be parties to treaties capping, then reducing, then eliminating nuclear weapons, but I see China's point that the nations with the most weapons should go first, and when they are down to parity with China, China might join the agreements.
“I agree with you that China should nuke up as a deterrence”
The minimum number of nuclear warheads required for deterrence is one — as long as that warhead is convincingly deliverable.
The PRC supposedly has more than 400 such warheads, and can deliver them from air, land, and sea platforms.
If they decide to use them, they possess the convincing ability to deliver more than one.
QED, the only purpose in “nuking up” would be if they have so much extra money lying around in piles that they just want to waste some and find making nukes more fun than roasting marshmallows over money bonfires.
"The minimum number of nuclear warheads required for deterrence is one as long as that warhead is convincingly deliverable." You second part of statement is the problem. That is hard to do with just one warhead. That single warhead would have to survive a potential first strike and than not get taken out in route. Deterrence requires more than one and multiple routes to the target.
Do you agree that more than 400 warheads, deliverable by a variety of presumably well-built launch platforms (land-based silos/launchers, ships/submarines, and aircraft), all of which include at least some countermeasures to destruction in a first strike, constitute a sufficient number for the express purpose of deterrence?
400 is more than one (1)
But it is still a deterrent. Whoever might be on the receiving end better be assured that it can't hit them under any circumstance.
Agreed, given that the only logical target for China is the US, as the US is in fact the only serious threat planet-wide.
NO…. John…!!!! The Tsar bomb counrts for 4000 of typical 750,000 tons of TNT U.S & NATO's deployed devices. The Tzar bomb equals 200 million tons of TNT!!! To grasp the difference just think what you can buy with $750,000 & what you could buy with $200 million. $750.000 buys upper middle class house. Two hundred million can buy a whole town of 4000 houses. Russia got tired of having the U.S. constant effort to have the ability to avoid a devastating reply to a U.S, first strike. The Tzar bomb is not dropped from the sky but arrives by sea. It's a torpedo. One could honestly say that the U.S. created this situation by it's lust to posses the ability to make an unanswerable first strike on Russia at all cost and an effort to exempt itself from MAD doctrine deterrence. The Tzar bomb's NORAD & ABM proof!
" To grasp the difference just think what you can buy with $750,000 & what you could buy with $200 million" This analysis does not apply to nuclear or conventional explosions. 200 million dollars could indeed buy 266 $750,000 homes because the purchasing power of a dollar is constant. But explosion don't work that way. The effect of an explosion diminishes with distance as non linear function. Thus a 200 megaton bomb would not be 200 times more destruct than a one megaton bomb. It would be much less somewhere between 6 to 14 times.
No way to know if Biden's reputedly-approved draft nuclear stategeries included correct spelling and pronunciation of the key word. In all disinterest, I suspect that they did. As contrasted w. Bush 43's and Carter's nucuelar. (One of the latter two certainly should have known better.)
No matter: What a historically-continuous confederacy of dunces !
What Biden says is what the Deep Government tells him too. And so in this case what the ventriloquist's dummy is saying is what it is told to say. The Neocon Zionist run controllers are preparing themselves to retire to their deep shelters in some far away land and activating the button. Not tomorrow but soon.
The Neocon ZioNazis are indeed the ones controlling the nuclear strategary. This is apparent in the mindset, the magical belief in "winning", that the god of israel will preserve his people. They view with perfect equanimity the prospect that rest of us, like the Palestinians, will be, in the final horror, utterly exterminated. … showing the wonder and glory of god.
Why they think "we" (i.e., them) can "win" a nuclear war…
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c
There will be no one left to tell anyone left.
All because a deranged psychopath is still president. And the replacement will not be better, red or blue.
Nuclear strategy is like a glove in the oven ⏤ you don't want to put your hand in to get it but you don't want to leave it there (for not being able to reach into the oven)
Sounds like a loser speaking, "we will take the blue planet down with us. "
Prepare the nuclear bombs. …No. …We will use them only if they complain while we $HIT OUR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY MORAL SUPERIORITY ON THEIR FACE.
The Russian Hypersonics & super nukes are game changers io Oh so many wsys!'
Besides the U.S. & NATO got routed by Afghanistan!!!! So the U.S, Neocons trying to be the No.1 tough guys on the planet has become a joke. Now they are desperate to come up with a way to be able to COW not only Russia but Russia &. China..!!! The funniest part of this is that it was THEIR War on terror that got the U.S. so far behind in the CRITICAL element of dominance….Military Superiority!!!
Lame duck president Joe Biden is probably the most dangerous man in the world currently.
Preparing for an aggressive nuclear war is just insane.
Many countries have transcontinental missiles that could attack the United States and create a human disaster.
Joe Biden is not only senile and clueless, he is also irresponsible.
He is a lunatic and thinks it's still 1945 and US is the only power with nukes in the world…!
And he is surrounded and advised by a battalion of lunatics.
The Biden regime is the s***m of the earth, and sc*um is waiting to replace the regime with more of the same.
Right after Obiden was installed the feds purchased $290,000,000.00 of potassium iodide..
So, there's that.
Really? Shall I get some before the air raid sirens go off or before???
Must be a mistake!!!!!
So updating the wars plans to take into account today's politics and technology is work of senile, clueless and irresponsible person. Yea right. The opposite is true. Technology changes and will of the adversaries change. Putin has threaten nuclear war more times than any Russian or Soviet leader in the past.
Putin has made clear the Russian Federation position on the conditions for RF nuclear weapon usage – namely, an existential threat to the Russian State.
Thus by your rationale, Major Burns, every American "nuclear posture review" is EQUALLY "threatening nuclear war."
Oh, come on. If Mexico invaded Texas, we wouldn’t nuke Mexico. Americans would just rally to the draft, sending their children to the war. /s
Is that what you believe…??????
Or is this you spinning scar Chasim
According to the Republicans, Mexico already has.
It's all bullshit this review. There is nothing they can do to counter Russias advantages but fire hundreds of missiles & bombs which will cause nuclear winter & destroy the planet & all life on it, or back down!!! What do you think they would do…??????????
Mutually Assured Destruction – "The Promise Of The 1950's"
Russia is threatened by Ukraine/US/NATO, the US isn't facing hostile forces in Mexico and/or Canada.
Russia is next door to Alaska and the West Coast.
Return Alaska to Russia for a little profit and problem solved.
Not solved but deferred.
Pffft, the USA won't give up what's in Mount m.f.-ing Hayes. Hells, the USA and RF are probably in secret treaty to PROTECT who & what's going on in there.
Russia is threatened by Ukraine/US/NATO, putting nukes in Ukraine on Russias borders too close to Moscow.. They asked Ukies to be neutral & not join NATO. Ukies refused and Russia invaded. Now Ukraine is being destroyed. Could that refusal have been a poor choice by Ukraine…??? Or was it smart??
Right. But first you surround your "adversaries" with military assets and by bribing other countries to form alliances against them.
The U.S. is so far behind in cutting edge nuclear & rocketry war fighting ability that there is NO SOLUTION, hence no plan to make public. It't back to the 50s!
Put your head under your desk, reach around & kiss your ass good bye.. Russia has unstoppable hypersonic missiles. Russia has nuclear robot torpedos with hydrogen bombs with 4000 the blast & explosive force of what the U.S. & NATO have!!!!! All of which they developed while America was busy looking for terrorists for our little No.1 welfare Queen can you guess who,,,????
Have the idiots in DC approved a strategic plan how to deal with incoming and detonated nukes in US from Russia, China and North Korea…?! I bet they haven't…! Because they're morons…!
US would loose badly in a nuclear war….! Just because it's located on the other side of the planet…doesn't make it safe…!
We are governed by insane criminals, a demented old man as president. What a f****d up nation, democracy and a totally f****d up NATO and EU.
"US would loose badly" There are no winners in a nuclear war.
Do you think the ruling regime and the demented old man in the WH knows that?
Have the idiots in DC approved a strategic plan how to deal with incoming and detonated nukes in US from Russia, China and North Korea…?! I bet they haven't…! Because they're morons…!
US would loose badly in a nuclear war….! Just because it's located on the other side of the planet…doesn't make it safe…!
All I know is the continues threats made by the US by the megalomaniacs of the f****d up Western Democracies of the USA/NATO against NK, CHINA, and RUSSIA and other nations around the globe. Never the other way around. They provoke and attack other nations if they don't do as told. Sanctions are economic war fare too.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8a950d2e667c2c4f6b9dc041404926a62ae10f38a868d0ac53d5ca8b1a57af2b.jpg
All Options are on the table!
And all along, such a war nuclear plan for the future, as referred to by Joe Biden as the “Nuclear Employment Guidance,” is done in complete secrecy. It seems to be used as a direct threat to other nuclear-armed ‘adversaries’, to tow the line or else.
It is the work of a small committee of professional neocon warmongers, with no public debate whatsoever, not by journalists, not by specialists and not even by members of Congress.
It won’t even be mentioned during the current presidential election. It is too important to have the people involved, even if they are the most directly concerned.
Genocide Joe and posse are all off. Rather than worrying about what nuclear projectiles China might throw over to the U.S.A. (which in all likelihood they never ever will 'cause it is not in their mentality to do so), Genocide Joe and his posse should be worrying about the refrigerators, and other kitchen gadjets the Chinese are throwing over to the U.S.A. right now (cause they are actually good.)
The man couldn't approve of the brand of toilet paper he uses.
People need to stop comparing numbers of warheads in storage. They are irrelevant. The war will be fought with what's loaded into delivery vehicles which are far less than the number of warheads. Most of the warheads in storage were intended to be PAID FOR, not USED. Most of them will be destroyed in the first thirty minutes of a nuclear war.
This is what you get from "journalists" who know nothing about military matters.
RIPPLE..we have had ..it..since mid 60's
99.9% clean nuke's
that means..no..lingering rad contamination
dial a yield from.5 to 50 kt
thats why they be ..casually..threatining using them…..
I guess Joe Schmoe wants all of us to go out with a bang……………..
The vile insanity of career political hacks like Biden and the deep state is unrivaled. Americans need to remove the uni-party before it destroys the planet..period.
The warmongering and the insurmountable national debt will increase whether dimwit Harris is elected or whether Trump is elected and fought the whole time by the unelected bureaucrats.