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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:07PM (2 children)
they need to quit investing time in weapons with so much collateral damage. weapons should only affect the government being targeted or at worst the target country's systems and the humans that depend on it. no need to murder all the animals for mile, turn the sea red, start a nuclear winter, pollute the land with radioactivity, etc. also, maybe lift the ban on assasinations. why are we shielding governments that don't listen to their people from high turnover? instead we allow them to kill all their people. let them kill each other and try to replace each other. let the governments go broke and fall into chaos. that's what they should be doing instead of being propped up to screw everyone and the earth.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:23PM
Nice rant, but have you actually read what this issue is about.
Its about building weapons of EXACTLY THE KIND YOU WISHED FOR.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @01:35PM
As to why we avoid assassinations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#Sarajevo_assassination [wikipedia.org]
Yes, they seem like a clean way to do things, but that is why they are so troublesome.