Many critics say that is an optimistic scenario that assumes there will be no miscalculation on the US side
Miscalculation in war is a given. War itself is a miscalculation.
Some wise person, whose name I cannot recall, once said that war plans always go awry once the first shot is fired.
National Nuclear Security Administration...yet another administration
The US has begun making a new, low-yield nuclear warhead for its Tridentmissiles that arms control advocates warn could lower the threshold for a nuclear conflict.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced in an email it had started manufacturing the weapon at its Pantex nuclear weapons plant in Texas, as ordered by Donald Trump’s nuclear posture review (NPR) last year.
The NNSA said the first of the new warheads had come off the production line and that it was on schedule to deliver the first batch – an unspecified number referred to as “initial operational capability” – before the end of September, according to the email, first sent in response to an enquiry fromExchange Monitor, which covers the nuclear weapons complex. Read the rest of this entry »
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