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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @03:40PM
Looked from the other end, that presents a problem for potential targets, and those of them who are commanding larger scientific effectives are probably commissioning research projects for solving that problem, and *that* presents yet another problem to US military, so development of better weapons must be kept in pipeline constantly.