America tests 'the most dangerous nuclear bomb ever produced': F-15 drops $1 trillion super-nuke

Daily Mail ^ | 08/29/2017

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In March of this year, an Air Force F-16 dropped an inert B61-12 during a development flight test by the 422nd Flight Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis AFB, Nevada

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Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are claiming success with the second in series of test flights involving an upgraded version of a nuclear bomb that has been part of the U.S. arsenal for decades

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Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs fears updated, high-precision U.S. models of nuclear bombs will lower inhibitions to use nuclear weapons in combat, Russian state news agency Itar-Tass reported on Tuesday.

[doorgunner69]

OK, why does adjustable yield make it so dangerous?

[gaijin]

0.3 kilotons min:

That’s amazing, wow.

[gaijin]

It adds hugely to credibility:

“This is a weapon the USA would be MUUUUUCH more likely to actually USE”.

Holocaust or Humiliation: NO.

It adds MANY choices.

[dp0622]

Makes it much more tactical?

[basalt]

screw the kilo tons...i want mega tons.

[CJ Wolf]

delivered by an f16, we can put these on anything.

[dp0622]

Good Lord.

[wastedyears]

A notice to the Norks too?

[gaijin]

The adjustable yield means you can tailor the bomb much more finely to the target need:

Imagine you have submarine pens riiiight next to a major population center:

What would be nice is to take out those subs in one flash, but leave their populace intact.

That would mean after you do that, you could still deter him from striking YOUR pop center (like NYC or LA, maybe):

You didn’t hit THAT, right? You were working on a legit military target. So assuming some rationality on the part of the enemy, he’s not yet bound to go and do that.

So you’re in the escalation Driver’s Seat, see..?

That is how it would work with a Soviet, or maybe the PRC leadership.

An Iranian or Norker..? Ok, that might be a different can of worms, yes.

But the idea is you mow the law a bit before you take out the entire city, capiche..?

[gaijin]

mow the lawN, sorry.

Not law.

[jonno]

1 Trillion? I call BS...

[DIRTYSECRET]

What about the timing of this info? Does fat boi care?

[CJ Wolf]

timing is always key. Fatboi likely no care.

[gaijin]

1 trillion is some dishonest journalism:

I would believe that number is maybe for this >decade-old program which generated this whole new class of nuclear weapons bearing this feature.

They want you to believe it’s PER bomb:

That’s totally implausible.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Does this fool even know how much a trillion dollars is? I left the service 24 years ago, but I can assure you that they are not spending anywhere near a trillion dollars on a bomb. The entire defense budget is less than 3/4 of that amount.

[kaehurowing]

I know where we can test the live-fire version.