That's dumb, you need bigger nukes to cover Israel before they retaliate with the Samson Option.
That's dumb, you need bigger nukes to cover Israel before they retaliate with the Samson Option.
It was developed in response to the Trump Administration's Nuclear Posture Review, which outlined the need for smaller nukes.
I call bullshit.
That review was published 2 years ago. Nuclear weapons do not go from proposal to approval to development to adoption to in service in just 2 years, not even 3 years. If that nuke is on a sub right now then it would have been at in response to a Obama Administration's Nuclear Posture Review.
This is all about Russia
Much of that need centers around Russia, which the administration says is preparing to use small nukes in a conflict. The idea is that Russia would use relatively low-yield nuclear weapon to get a superior adversary such as the U.S. or NATO to back down in a conflict, according to Katarzyna Zysk, who studies Russian military doctrine at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies in Oslo.
Remember who was all hawkish on Russia before Trump was elected?
> It was developed in response to the Trump Administration's Nuclear Posture Review, which outlined the need for smaller nukes.
I call bullshit.
That review was published 2 years ago. Nuclear weapons do not go from proposal to approval to development to adoption to in service in just 2 years, not even 3 years. If that nuke is on a sub right now then it would have been at in response to a Obama Administration's Nuclear Posture Review.
This is all about Russia
> Much of that need centers around Russia, which the administration says is preparing to use small nukes in a conflict. The idea is that Russia would use relatively low-yield nuclear weapon to get a superior adversary such as the U.S. or NATO to back down in a conflict, according to Katarzyna Zysk, who studies Russian military doctrine at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies in Oslo.
Remember who was all hawkish on Russia before Trump was elected?
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