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"The Pentagon has completed initial draft plans for several emerging low-yield sea-launched nuclear weapons intended to deter potential attackers and add new precision strike options to those currently possible with the existing arsenal.
While final requirements for both a low-yield sea-launched nuclear cruise missile and long-range sub-launched low-yield warhead are still in development, Pentagon officials tell Warrior Maven the process has taken several substantial new steps forward."
A Trident missile with a low-yield warhead "would offer a yet-to-exist long-range low-yield sea launched weapon. The existing Trident II D5 has a massive 100-kiloton yield, bringing massive destructive power to large swaths of territories – entire cities and well beyond."
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by JustNiz on Wednesday June 06 2018, @03:19PM (2 children)
Do the words "precision" and "nuclear" sound inherently incompatible to you too?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:15PM
Tsar Bomba didn't need precision, but it could still benefit from it.
Seems that the US continues to downsize nuclear yields, perhaps hoping to make the threat more credible that we just might use a "little nuke" somewhere, someday. Meanwhile, the propaganda that reaches me from the heart of darkness (Москва) says that the other side is crafting ever bigger bombs where a single one could not only take out the nuclear submarine base up the coast here, but also F-up the million+ population city 50 miles away.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:20PM
No.
If they do to you, then you are living hopelessly in the past. Even Krazy Kim can produce a mini nuke.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.