Posted on 08/04/2009 11:12:23 AM PDT by Fennie
WASHINGTON -- The United States may maintain Tomahawk cruise missiles with nuclear warheads for nuclear-powered attack submarines in the medium term, under a comprehensive review of its nuclear warfare policy which is now under way, a senior U.S. government official said Wednesday.
The official said during an interview with Kyodo News it depends on U.S. allies to decide if the nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles will be decommissioned.
The remark apparently pays consideration to Japan, which has asked the United States not to unilaterally decide to reduce or abandon tactical nuclear arms.
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150-kt is not a tactical nuke.
SBLMs with nuke war heads are things we ought to keep in the inventory.
Especially since ours actually work! God bless the D5. Unlike the poor Bulava, which is embarrassingly failure prone.
Roge-o, Tony!
I don’t see any reason to get rid of our tactical nukes. I can sorta understand (but not agree with) the reasoning behind getting rid of the weapons that are designed to kill civilian populations. Tactical nukes are our best chance of disarming a nuclear power and stopping a counterattack before it starts.
We’d probably be safer if we had more small precise nukes than having a bunch of big dumb ones.
TLAM-N ping
Don’t decommission them, give them to Taiwan and South Korea.
Bump
I like the way you think.
I like this plan. I don’t like when people talk about communist China, as far as I’m concerned, Taiwan is the seat of China’s only legitimate government and the mainland is in a state of Communist Rebellion.
Let’s help our Taiwanese allies get their country back.
...it depends on U.S. allies to decide if the nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles will be decommissioned. The remark apparently pays consideration to Japan, which has asked the United States not to unilaterally decide to reduce or abandon tactical nuclear arms.
Funny, since George H. W. Bush unilaterally took TLAM-N off of boats and skimmers at the end of his term.
That’s what I thought too. Everything I’ve seen says the TLAM-N has been retired.
After thinking about it a little, TLAM-N was removed from operational launch platforms, but were maintained at the depot. As I recall, each SSN squadron had a “re-gen” boat went though all the special weapon handling hoopla including NTPI/DNSI.
Over 15 years since I last stood a watch as NWSG and I still remember the two man rule. Sad, really. :)
Looks like someone is going to lose their job because they “Stand in the way” of Obama’s grand plan...
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