The US has begun making a new, low-yield nuclear warhead for its Trident missiles 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 from Exchange Monitor, which covers the nuclear weapons complex.
The new weapon, the W76-2, is a modification of the existing Trident warhead. Stephen Young, a senior Washington representative of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said its yield had most likely been cut by taking away one stage from the original two-stage, W76 thermonuclear device.
You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/28/us-nuclear-weapons-first-low-yield-warheads-roll-off-the-production-line
Dumb, dumb, dumb !!!
I have written about a related issue before (super-fuzing):
https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/05/super-fuzing-our-way-to-first-strike.html
Apparently they have made our weapons more accurate, so that now each warhead can be smaller, there can be more of them, and we'll possibly be more likely to use them.
Congress has two choices - either go along with this insanity, or stop it now before it's too late. Apparently they have chosen the former.
G-d help us.
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