The essence of critics’ argument against the low-yield weapon is that it makes the world less safe because it offers decision-makers another option for using a nuclear weapon in a conflict that could then escalate to a full-blown nuclear war. They also contend that lower-yield air-launched...
In 2020, the Trump administration deployed a low-yield nuclear weapon aboard US submarines. President-elect Joe Biden should interrogate whether this was sound policy. The process of assessing the usefulness of this warhead could present Biden with an opportunity to rebalance the US portfolio of ...
At a time of real nuclear danger on the Indian Subcontinent it may seem a little self- indulgent to hold a meeting on the threat posed by U.S. nuclear weapons developments. The former British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on Monday described the current situation between India and Pakistan...
“The B61-12 LEP will deliver the new capability of being able to lower the explosive yield and will include a new tail kit that will give the nuclear weapon a new $800 million precision guidance capability – these same capabilities were rejected by Congress in 1994 over concerns they would...
s intentions on nuclear arms control. Some European allies have expressed skepticism about the wisdom of the U.S. decision to deploy a submarine-launched ballistic missile armed witha so-called low-yield nuclear warhead. Last week the Pentagon acknowledged that it had deployed that weapo...
The combination of low-yield nuclear weapons on board US submarines lurking off Russia’s coast with US destroyers equipped to shoot down Russian ICBMs is the stuff of any Russian nuclear planner’s worst nightmare. Russia will most likely be compelled to reexamine its alert posture to account ...
When Robert Oppenheimer and other physicists developed the first nuclear fission weapon in the 1940s, they worried that their invention might destroy humanity. Thus far, it has not, but controlling nuclear weapons has been a persistent challenge ever since. AINational SecurityGlobal Governance China ...
stating that the North "has yet to demonstrate it has the requisite technology and capability to target and strike the United States with a nuclear weapon." Yet Pyongyang may well be on the verge of achieving exactly that capability, perhaps with high-yield warheads on relatively inaccurate missi...
The conference will not yield any positive results and the worst outcome will be sanction restated by the U.S. against Iran. You can have all the talks you want, Iran will not back down. Question: If Saudi Arabia wants to develop nuclear weapon capability, will the United States put on ...
Evangelism can be defined as declaring the good news about all that God is doing in the world; but it is much more than simply challenging individuals to yield to Jesus, letting Jesus into their lives, and allowing the power of the Holy Spirit to transform them into new creations. It is...