Posted on 06/07/2019 7:45:01 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Unbelievably, Congress is considering a restriction on the ability of the U.S. to defend itself. The proposal, tucked into this year’s defense bill, would prohibit the Pentagon from spending money to deploy smaller, low-yield nuclear warheads on submarine-launched ballistic missiles. These weapons have been scheduled to be deployed before the effective date of this year’s defense bill, meaning that this provision would pre-emptively recall the weapons from deployment.
Preventing these missiles from being deployed dangerously threatens America’s ability to defend itself against adversaries who themselves possess low-yield nuclear weapons.
Last year, with a bipartisan vote, Congress provided funding necessary to configure low-yield nuclear warheads for submarine-launched missiles that, once detonated, produce one-tenth the explosive yield of traditional nuclear warheads. Russia actively deploys low-yield nuclear weapons. As noted in the 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, this effort to replace higher-yield warheads with low-yield ones was intended to enhance “the diverse set of nuclear capabilities that provides an American President flexibility to tailor the approach to deterring one or more potential adversaries.” The goal is to deter our adversaries from considering the use of nuclear weapons.
Russia has openly described, and rehearsed in military exercises, a military doctrine of “escalate to de-escalate.” Under this strategy, Russia would attack using smaller nuclear weapons, understanding that the U.S. would hesitate to respond without a way to act proportionally. This doctrine has led Moscow to think it has an advantage, and appears to have lowered its threshold for first use of nuclear weapons.
The ability to deploy low-yield nuclear weapons would bolster the deterrence value of the U.S. nuclear triad. It offers the threat of a proportional response, closes the deterrence gap with adversaries such as Russia and North Korea, and serves as a powerful symbol of America’s longstanding deterrence commitment to its allies.
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Idiots or traitors? Oh, wait... demorats... they are both.
If Trump and the DOJ does not get busy destroying the communists Democratic machine America will be reduced to a third world nation.
BTW if you don't know who Mark is his Podcast on N-Power are a must watch. He is an plant operator w/ a navy boomher background, he knows his stuff....
What if this whole quest for N wephons is supplanted by oh **it, we have Plewtoneium, dang we can burn it in the Breeder! Free Fuel for 30 or 40 years, it eats itself and creates more!
Now I will not even touch Fusion, wouldn't be prudent.
Maybe I am naive about the quest for power and I am not confusing it with energy, we saw it and we celebrated overcoming despots and their lust for power yesterday.
But is there a chance an inflection point is coming that this "stuff" is more valuable as a fuel than as a wephon? Will mankind reach a point where electrical energy is darn near fungible because of it, and wars decrease and the next big step is desalinization as needed tangent to the power cycles involved.
Look I totally get it, I don't trust the Chi-Coms and others as far as I can throw them,
Mark Schnieder is even boldly asking, lets extract the elephants feet at the bottom of the burnt out Chernobyl reactor and use it as fuel in a Gen 4 Reactor. That is really out of the box. Some days I am actually an optimist.
BTW misspellings on purpose to throw off Deep State disgronifiers, I hope ;-)
Nuclear weapons are a gigantic waste of money in this age. Who would we use them on??
I’d much rather see it spent on clean safe nuclear energy than something that will never be used and will require a lifetime of development, maintenance, and disposal costs.
That's what this stooge congressman misses; the fight is domestic.
I wonder if Rep Turner is paid in cash for his MIC puff pieces?
I am afraid that nothing short of armed insurrection is going to stop the madness of todays socialist democrat party. Thats why they want to take our guns away. If that ever happens they will take use down the toilet fast.
That’s more often an aspect of success, than we realize.
I look at the things people rail against today concerning the US military presence around the world.
Don’t these people understand why we’ve had relative peace for the last 70 years.
I cringe when I see folks say things like, “Let Europe develop their own military.”
Germany is a very powerful force in the E.U., and yet some folks want a strong European military machine.
A slap forehead moment...
Congress is being more flexible after the 2018 Election.
I wonder which Rat told Vlad?
This amounts to no less than gun control on our military.
And they’re meeting behind closed doors now to give themselves a raise!
Then nuke our enemies before Congress can disarm our military forces.
I believe that FReepers have more knowledge, experience and common sense than the 535 idiots in the US House and Senate.
MAD had a good run. But I think we have plenty.
But you didn’t answer the question-— if we build these new nukes, who would use them on?
I’d rather see nuclear power be developed to lower electricity rates across America.
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